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 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
21 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
22 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
23 * Add Pre-Depends and Build-Depends-Indep to the relationships not
24 allowed from main to contrib or non-free and mention that such
25 relationships are okay if the non-free package is only an
26 alternative. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #587279)
27 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
28 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
29 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
31 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:34:54 -0700
33 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
36 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
39 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
42 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
43 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
44 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
45 and distribution license' (three times).
46 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
47 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
48 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
49 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
50 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
52 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
54 Proposed by Santiago Vila
55 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
56 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
57 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
58 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
62 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
63 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
64 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
65 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
67 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
68 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
69 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
70 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
71 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
72 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
74 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
75 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
76 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
77 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
79 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
80 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
81 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
82 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
83 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
85 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
86 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
87 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
88 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
89 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
91 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
92 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
93 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
94 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
95 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
97 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
98 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
99 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
100 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
102 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
103 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
104 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
105 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
106 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
108 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
109 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
110 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
111 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
113 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
114 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
115 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
116 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
118 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
119 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
120 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
121 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
122 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
124 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
125 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
126 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
127 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
129 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
130 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
131 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
132 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
133 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
135 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
136 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
137 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
138 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
140 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
141 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
142 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
143 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
144 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
145 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
146 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
147 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
148 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
149 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
150 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
151 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
152 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
153 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
154 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
155 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
156 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
157 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
158 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
159 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
160 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
161 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
162 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
163 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
164 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
165 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
166 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
167 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
168 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
169 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
170 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
171 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
173 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
175 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
177 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
180 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
181 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
183 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
184 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
188 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
191 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
192 Wording: Steve Langasek.
193 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
194 Seconded: Julien Cristau
195 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
198 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
199 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
200 Seconded: Russ Allbery
201 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
204 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
205 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
206 Seconded: Russ Allbery
208 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
209 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
210 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
211 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
212 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
213 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
214 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
215 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
216 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
218 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
219 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
220 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
221 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
222 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
223 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
224 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
225 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
226 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
227 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
228 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
229 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
230 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
231 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
232 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
233 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
235 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
236 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
237 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
238 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
239 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
241 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
244 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
245 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
246 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
247 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
248 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
249 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
252 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
254 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
256 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
257 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
258 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
259 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
261 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
262 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
263 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
264 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
266 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
267 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
268 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
269 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
271 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
272 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
273 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
274 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
275 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
276 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
278 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
279 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
280 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
281 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
282 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
284 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
285 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
286 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
287 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
289 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
290 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
291 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
292 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
294 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
295 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
296 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
297 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
299 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
300 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
301 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
302 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
304 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
305 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
306 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
307 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
309 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
310 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
311 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
312 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
313 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
314 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
315 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
316 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
317 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
318 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
319 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
320 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
321 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
322 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
323 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
325 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
326 Source field descriptions.
327 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
328 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
329 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
330 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
331 description says otherwise.
333 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
335 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
338 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
339 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
340 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
341 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
342 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
343 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
345 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
346 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
347 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
348 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
350 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
351 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
352 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
353 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
355 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
356 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
357 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
358 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
360 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
361 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
362 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
363 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
367 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
368 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
369 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
370 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
371 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
373 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
374 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
375 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
376 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
378 * Add myself to Uploaders.
381 * Add myself to Uploaders.
382 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
384 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
385 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
386 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
388 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
390 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
392 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
393 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
394 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
395 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
397 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
398 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
399 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
400 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
402 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
403 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
404 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
405 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
407 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
408 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
409 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
410 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
412 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
413 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
414 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
415 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
417 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
418 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
419 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
420 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
422 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
423 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
424 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
425 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
427 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
428 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
429 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
430 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
432 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
433 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
434 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
435 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
437 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
438 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
439 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
440 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
442 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
443 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
444 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
445 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
446 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
448 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
449 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
450 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
451 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
452 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
453 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
454 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
455 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
456 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
457 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
458 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
459 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
460 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
461 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
462 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
463 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
464 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
465 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
466 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
467 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
468 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
469 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
470 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
471 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
472 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
473 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
474 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
475 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
476 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
477 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
479 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
480 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
481 links was completed long ago.
482 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
484 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
486 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
488 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
489 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
491 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
493 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
495 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
496 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
497 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
498 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
499 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
500 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
501 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
502 Millan (Closes: #209008).
503 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
504 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
506 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
508 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
510 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
511 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
512 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
513 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
514 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
515 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
516 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
518 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
519 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
520 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
521 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
523 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
524 Küster (Closes: #403391).
525 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
526 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
527 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
528 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
529 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
530 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
531 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
532 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
533 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
534 Closes: #186700, #458910
535 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
536 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
537 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
539 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
540 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
541 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
542 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
543 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
544 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
545 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
546 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
548 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
549 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
551 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
552 * Add an md5sums control file.
553 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
554 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
555 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
556 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
557 currently part of policy.
558 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
559 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
560 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
563 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
565 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
567 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
568 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
569 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
570 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
571 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
572 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
573 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
574 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
575 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
576 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
577 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
578 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
579 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
580 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
581 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
582 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
584 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
586 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
587 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
588 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
590 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
591 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
592 list?" (Closes: #412634).
593 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
594 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
595 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
596 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
597 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
598 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
599 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
600 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
601 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
602 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
603 debconf specification.
604 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
605 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
607 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
609 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
611 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
612 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
613 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
614 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
615 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
617 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
619 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
620 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
621 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
622 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
623 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
625 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
626 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
627 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
628 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
629 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
630 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
631 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
632 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
633 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
634 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
635 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
636 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
637 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
638 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
639 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
640 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
642 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
644 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
645 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
646 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
647 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
648 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
649 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
650 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
651 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
653 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
655 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
657 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
658 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
659 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
660 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
661 Polo (Closes: #372497).
662 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
663 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
665 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
666 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
667 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
668 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
669 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
670 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
671 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
672 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
673 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
674 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
676 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
677 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
678 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
679 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
680 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
681 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
683 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
685 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
687 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
688 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
689 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
690 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
692 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
693 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
695 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
697 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
699 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
700 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
701 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
702 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
703 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
704 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
705 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
706 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
707 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
708 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
710 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
711 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
712 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
713 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
714 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
715 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
716 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
717 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
718 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
719 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
720 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
723 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
725 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
727 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
728 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
729 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
730 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
731 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
732 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
733 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
734 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
735 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
736 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
737 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
738 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
739 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
740 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
741 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
742 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
743 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
744 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
745 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
746 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
747 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
748 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
749 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
750 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
751 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
752 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
753 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
754 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
756 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
757 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
758 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
759 Hess (Closes: #362247).
760 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
761 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
762 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
763 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
764 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
765 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
766 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
767 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
768 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
769 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
770 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
771 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
773 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
774 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
776 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
777 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
778 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
779 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
780 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
781 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
782 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
783 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
784 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
785 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
786 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
788 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
790 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
793 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
794 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
795 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
796 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
797 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
798 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
799 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
800 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
801 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
802 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
803 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
804 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
805 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
807 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
808 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
809 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
810 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
811 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
812 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
813 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
814 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
815 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
816 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
817 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
818 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
819 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
820 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
821 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
822 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
823 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
824 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
825 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
828 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
830 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
832 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
833 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
834 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
835 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
837 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
838 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
839 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
840 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
842 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
844 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
847 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
848 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
849 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
850 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
851 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
852 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
853 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
854 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
855 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
856 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
858 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
859 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
860 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
862 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
863 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
864 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
865 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
866 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
867 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
868 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
870 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
871 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
872 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
873 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
875 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
876 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
877 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
878 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
879 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
880 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
881 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
882 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
884 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
885 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
886 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
887 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
888 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
889 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
890 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
891 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
892 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
893 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
894 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
895 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
896 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
897 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
898 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
899 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
900 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
902 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
904 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
907 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
908 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
909 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
910 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
911 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
912 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
913 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
914 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
915 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
917 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
918 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
919 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
920 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
921 this section. closes: Bug#248618
922 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
923 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
924 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
925 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
926 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
927 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
928 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
929 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
930 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
931 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
932 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
933 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
935 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
936 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
937 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
940 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
941 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
942 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
944 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
945 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
946 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
947 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
948 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
949 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
951 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
952 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
954 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
955 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
956 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
957 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
958 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
959 Closes: #185943, #237049
961 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
963 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
966 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
969 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
970 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
971 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
972 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
973 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
974 running. closes: Bug#187250
975 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
976 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
977 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
978 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
979 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
980 user closes: Bug#176506
982 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
984 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
987 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
988 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
989 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
990 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
991 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
992 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
993 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
994 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
995 deb-building toolchain.
996 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
997 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
998 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
999 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1000 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1001 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1002 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1003 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1004 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1005 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1006 sections about changelog files.
1008 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1009 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1010 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1011 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1012 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1013 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1015 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1016 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1017 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1018 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1019 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1020 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1021 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1022 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1023 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1024 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1025 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1026 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1027 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1028 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1029 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1030 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1031 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1032 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1033 for the restructuring
1035 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1037 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1042 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1043 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1044 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1045 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1046 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1047 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1049 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1050 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1051 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1052 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1053 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1054 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1055 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1057 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1058 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1059 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1060 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1062 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1064 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1068 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1069 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1070 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1071 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1072 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1074 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1075 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1076 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1077 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1079 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1080 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1081 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1082 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1083 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1084 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1085 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1086 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1087 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1088 offtopic stuff, too.
1089 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1090 script should start it, closes: #60979
1091 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1092 "should", closes: #170019
1093 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1094 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1095 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1096 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1097 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1098 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1099 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1100 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1103 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1105 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1109 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1110 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1111 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1112 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1113 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1114 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1115 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1116 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1118 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1119 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1120 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1121 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1122 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1123 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1124 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1125 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1126 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1128 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1129 file, closes: Bug#65764
1131 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1133 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1135 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1136 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1137 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1138 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1139 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1140 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1141 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1142 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1143 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1144 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1145 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1146 details. closes: Bug#133030
1147 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1148 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1149 parts of Bug#161455.
1151 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1153 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1156 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1157 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1158 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1159 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1160 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1161 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1162 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1163 not. closes: Bug#139820
1164 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1165 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1166 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1167 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1168 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1169 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1170 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1171 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1172 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1173 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1175 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1177 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1178 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1179 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1180 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1181 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1182 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1183 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1184 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1185 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1186 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1187 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1188 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1189 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1190 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1191 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1192 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1193 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1194 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1195 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1196 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1198 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1199 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1200 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1201 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1202 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1203 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1204 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1206 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1207 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1208 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1209 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1210 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1211 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1212 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1213 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1214 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1216 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1218 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1220 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1221 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1222 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1223 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1224 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1225 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1226 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1227 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1228 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1229 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1230 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1231 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1232 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1233 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1234 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1235 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1236 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1237 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1238 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1239 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1240 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1241 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1242 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1244 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1246 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1249 medium, high, emergency.
1250 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1251 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1252 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1253 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1254 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1257 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1258 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1259 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1261 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1262 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1263 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1264 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1265 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1266 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1267 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1270 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1272 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1274 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1275 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1276 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1277 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1279 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1280 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1281 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1282 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1283 debian/rules to do this
1284 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1285 patches are incorporated upstream
1286 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1287 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1288 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1289 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1290 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1291 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1293 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1294 system closes: Bug#91249
1295 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1296 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1297 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1298 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1299 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1300 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1301 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1302 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1303 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1304 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1305 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1306 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1307 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1309 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1311 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1314 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1315 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1316 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1318 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1319 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1320 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1322 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1325 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1327 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1329 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1330 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1331 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1332 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1333 package for the time being
1334 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1335 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1336 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1337 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1338 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1339 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1340 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1341 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1342 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1343 Build-Depends arch syntax
1344 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1346 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1347 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1349 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1350 from policy maintenance duties.
1351 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1352 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1354 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1356 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1360 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1362 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1365 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1366 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1367 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1368 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1369 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1370 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1371 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1372 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1373 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1374 minor version number for this
1375 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1376 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1377 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1378 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1379 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1380 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1381 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1382 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1383 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1385 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1387 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1390 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1391 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1392 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1393 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1395 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1397 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1398 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1399 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1400 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1401 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1402 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1403 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1404 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1405 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1406 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1407 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1408 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1409 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1410 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1411 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1412 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1415 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1417 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1419 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1420 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1422 * Document the Enhances relationship
1423 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1424 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1425 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1426 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1427 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1428 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1430 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1432 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1433 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1434 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1435 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1437 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1438 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1439 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1440 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1441 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1443 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1445 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1448 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1449 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1451 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1452 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1453 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1454 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1455 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1456 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1457 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1458 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1459 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1461 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1463 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1465 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1468 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1469 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1470 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1471 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1472 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1473 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1474 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1475 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1476 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1477 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1478 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1479 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1480 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1481 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1482 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1483 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1484 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1485 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1486 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1487 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1488 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1490 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1491 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1493 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1495 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1498 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1499 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1500 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1501 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1502 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1503 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1504 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1505 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1506 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1507 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1508 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1509 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1510 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1511 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1512 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1513 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1514 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1515 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1516 list closes: Bug#53756
1517 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1518 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1519 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1520 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1521 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1522 policy closes: Bug#53760
1523 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1524 policy closes: Bug#53761
1525 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1526 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1527 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1528 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1529 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1530 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1531 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1532 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1533 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1534 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1535 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1537 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1538 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1539 to install with older fileutils.
1540 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1541 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1542 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1543 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1545 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1546 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1548 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1550 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1553 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1555 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1557 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1560 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1562 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1565 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1568 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1570 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1572 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1574 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1576 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1577 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1579 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1581 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1583 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1584 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1585 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1586 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1587 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1588 directoried (closes: #41547)
1589 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1590 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1591 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1592 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1593 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1594 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1595 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1596 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1597 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1598 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1599 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1601 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1602 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1603 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1604 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1605 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1606 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1607 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1609 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1610 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1611 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1612 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1614 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1616 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1618 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1619 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1621 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1623 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1625 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1626 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1628 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1630 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1633 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1635 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1636 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1637 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1638 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1639 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1640 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1641 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1642 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1643 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1644 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1645 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1646 this closes: Bug#38612
1647 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1648 before. closes: Bug#40864
1650 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1652 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1655 officially uploaded.
1656 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1658 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1659 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1660 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1662 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1663 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1664 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1665 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1666 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1667 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1669 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1670 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1671 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1673 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1675 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1676 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1677 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1678 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1679 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1681 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1683 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1685 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1686 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1687 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1688 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1689 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1690 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1691 there). closes: Bug#34233
1692 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1693 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1694 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1695 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1696 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1698 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1700 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1703 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1704 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1705 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1708 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1709 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1710 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1711 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1712 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1715 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1716 number. closes: BUG#25911
1718 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1719 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1720 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1721 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1722 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1723 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1725 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1726 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1727 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1730 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1731 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1732 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1734 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1735 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1736 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1737 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1739 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1740 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1741 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1743 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1745 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1746 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1747 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1748 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1749 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1750 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1751 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1752 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1755 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1757 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1758 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1761 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1763 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1767 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1769 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1772 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1773 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1774 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1775 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1776 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1777 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1778 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1780 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1781 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1783 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1785 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1787 * non-maintainer release
1788 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1789 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1791 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1792 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1793 * no content changes
1794 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1796 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1798 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1802 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1804 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1806 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1808 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1809 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1810 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1812 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1813 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1815 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1816 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1817 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1818 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1820 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1821 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1822 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1823 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1824 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1825 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1826 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1828 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1829 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1830 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1833 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1834 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1835 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1837 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1838 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1839 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1841 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1842 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1844 * New version numbering scheme:
1846 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1847 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1848 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1851 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1852 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1853 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1854 differ between the manuals.
1856 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1857 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1858 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1859 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1861 * Packaging changes:
1863 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1864 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1866 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1868 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1870 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1872 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1874 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1875 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1876 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1878 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1879 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1882 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1883 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1884 file extension as the referenced file
1886 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1887 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1889 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1890 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1891 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1892 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1895 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1896 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1897 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1899 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1900 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1901 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1902 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1905 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1906 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
1909 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
1910 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
1911 reasonable default configuration
1913 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
1914 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
1915 by all news servers and clients
1917 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
1918 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
1919 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
1920 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
1921 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
1923 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1924 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
1927 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
1929 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1930 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
1932 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
1935 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
1936 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
1938 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
1939 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
1941 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1943 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
1945 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1947 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1948 - X library package is now called xlib6g
1949 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1950 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
1952 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
1954 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
1955 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
1956 * Don't use debstd anymore
1958 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
1960 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1962 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1963 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
1964 contrib/non-free policy
1965 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
1966 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
1967 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
1968 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
1969 - new section about `Daemons'
1970 - updated section about `Configuration files'
1971 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
1972 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
1973 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1974 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
1975 * Paper about libc6 migration:
1976 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
1977 * SGML source code included in package
1978 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
1980 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
1982 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1985 - completely reworked structure
1986 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
1987 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
1988 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
1989 - removed all those ugly footnotes
1990 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
1991 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
1992 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
1993 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
1994 - mention "orphaned packages"
1995 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
1996 distributions' policy
1997 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
1998 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
1999 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2000 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2001 - added section about arch spec strings
2002 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2003 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2004 - added section about "menus"
2005 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2006 the new documentation policy soon
2007 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2008 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2010 - added section about editors and pagers
2011 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2012 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2013 - added section about device files
2014 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2015 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2016 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2018 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2019 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2020 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2021 - Added new section about obsolete names
2022 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2023 * Fixed package's description
2025 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2027 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2029 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2031 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2033 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2035 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2036 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2037 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2038 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2040 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2042 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2044 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2045 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2046 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2048 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2049 and upload it "byhand" too.
2051 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2053 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2057 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2058 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2059 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2060 functionality must not have the same name.
2061 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2062 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2063 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2064 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2065 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2066 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2067 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2069 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2070 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2071 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2072 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2073 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2074 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2075 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2076 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2079 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2081 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2083 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2085 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2086 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2087 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2088 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2089 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2092 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2094 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2096 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2098 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2099 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2100 description of deb file format.
2101 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2102 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2104 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2106 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2107 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2109 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2111 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2113 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2114 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2115 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2116 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2117 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2118 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2119 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2120 packages in section on Procedure
2121 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2122 a package maintainer
2123 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2124 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2125 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2127 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2128 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2129 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2130 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2131 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2132 on various shlib files
2133 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2134 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2135 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2137 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2139 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2141 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2142 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2143 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2145 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2146 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2147 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2148 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2149 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2151 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2153 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2155 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2157 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2159 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2160 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2161 compatibility go in contrib.
2163 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2164 instructions in policy manual.
2165 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2168 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2170 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2172 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2173 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2174 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2175 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2177 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2178 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2181 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2183 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2185 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2186 * More detail about changelog format names.
2188 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2189 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2193 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2195 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2197 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2199 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2201 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2203 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2205 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2207 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2208 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2209 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2211 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2213 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2215 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2217 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2219 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2223 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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