1 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
5 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
7 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
8 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
9 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
11 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
12 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
13 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
14 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
16 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
17 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
18 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
19 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
21 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
22 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
23 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
24 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
26 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
27 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
28 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
29 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
33 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
34 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
35 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
36 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
37 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
39 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
40 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
41 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
42 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
44 * Add myself to Uploaders.
47 * Add myself to Uploaders.
48 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
50 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
51 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
52 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
54 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
56 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
58 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
59 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
60 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
61 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
63 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
64 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
65 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
66 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
68 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
69 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
70 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
71 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
73 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
74 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
75 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
76 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
78 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
79 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
80 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
81 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
83 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
84 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
85 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
86 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
88 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
89 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
90 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
91 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
93 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
94 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
95 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
96 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
98 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
99 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
100 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
101 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
103 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
104 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
105 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
106 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
108 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
109 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
110 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
111 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
112 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
114 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
115 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
116 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
117 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
118 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
119 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
120 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
121 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
122 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
123 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
124 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
125 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
126 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
127 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
128 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
129 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
130 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
131 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
132 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
133 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
134 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
135 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
136 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
137 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
138 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
139 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
140 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
141 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
142 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
143 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
145 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
146 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
147 links was completed long ago.
148 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
150 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
152 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
154 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
155 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
157 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
159 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
161 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
162 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
163 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
164 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
165 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
166 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
167 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
168 Millan (Closes: #209008).
169 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
170 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
172 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
174 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
176 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
177 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
178 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
179 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
180 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
181 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
182 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
184 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
185 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
186 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
187 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
189 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
190 Küster (Closes: #403391).
191 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
192 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
193 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
194 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
195 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
196 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
197 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
198 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
199 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
200 Closes: #186700, #458910
201 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
202 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
203 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
205 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
206 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
207 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
208 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
209 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
210 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
211 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
212 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
214 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
215 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
217 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
218 * Add an md5sums control file.
219 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
220 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
221 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
222 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
223 currently part of policy.
224 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
225 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
226 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
229 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
231 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
233 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
234 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
235 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
236 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
237 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
238 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
239 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
240 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
241 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
242 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
243 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
244 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
245 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
246 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
247 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
248 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
250 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
252 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
253 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
254 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
256 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
257 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
258 list?" (Closes: #412634).
259 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
260 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
261 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
262 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
263 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
264 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
265 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
266 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
267 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
268 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
269 debconf specification.
270 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
271 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
273 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
275 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
277 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
278 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
279 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
280 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
281 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
283 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
285 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
286 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
287 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
288 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
289 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
291 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
292 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
293 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
294 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
295 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
296 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
297 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
298 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
299 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
300 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
301 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
302 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
303 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
304 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
305 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
306 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
308 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
310 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
311 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
312 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
313 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
314 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
315 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
316 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
317 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
319 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
321 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
323 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
324 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
325 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
326 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
327 Polo (Closes: #372497).
328 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
329 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
331 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
332 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
333 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
334 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
335 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
336 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
337 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
338 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
339 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
340 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
342 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
343 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
344 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
345 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
346 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
347 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
349 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
351 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
353 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
354 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
355 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
356 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
358 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
359 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
361 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
363 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
365 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
366 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
367 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
368 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
369 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
370 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
371 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
372 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
373 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
374 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
376 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
377 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
378 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
379 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
380 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
381 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
382 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
383 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
384 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
385 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
386 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
389 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
391 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
393 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
394 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
395 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
396 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
397 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
398 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
399 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
400 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
401 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
402 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
403 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
404 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
405 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
406 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
407 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
408 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
409 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
410 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
411 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
412 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
413 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
414 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
415 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
416 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
417 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
418 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
419 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
420 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
422 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
423 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
424 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
425 Hess (Closes: #362247).
426 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
427 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
428 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
429 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
430 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
431 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
432 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
433 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
434 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
435 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
436 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
437 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
439 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
440 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
442 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
443 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
444 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
445 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
446 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
447 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
448 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
449 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
450 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
451 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
452 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
454 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
456 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
459 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
460 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
461 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
462 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
463 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
464 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
465 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
466 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
467 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
468 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
469 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
470 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
471 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
473 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
474 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
475 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
476 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
477 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
478 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
479 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
480 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
481 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
482 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
483 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
484 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
485 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
486 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
487 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
488 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
489 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
490 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
491 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
494 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
496 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
498 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
499 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
500 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
501 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
503 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
504 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
505 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
506 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
508 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
510 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
513 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
514 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
515 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
516 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
517 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
518 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
519 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
520 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
521 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
522 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
524 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
525 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
526 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
528 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
529 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
530 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
531 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
532 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
533 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
534 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
536 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
537 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
538 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
539 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
541 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
542 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
543 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
544 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
545 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
546 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
547 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
548 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
550 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
551 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
552 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
553 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
554 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
555 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
556 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
557 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
558 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
559 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
560 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
561 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
562 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
563 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
564 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
565 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
566 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
568 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
570 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
573 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
574 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
575 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
576 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
577 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
578 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
579 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
580 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
581 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
583 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
584 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
585 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
586 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
587 this section. closes: Bug#248618
588 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
589 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
590 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
591 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
592 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
593 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
594 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
595 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
596 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
597 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
598 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
599 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
601 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
602 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
603 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
606 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
607 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
608 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
610 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
611 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
612 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
613 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
614 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
615 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
617 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
618 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
620 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
621 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
622 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
623 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
624 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
625 Closes: #185943, #237049
627 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
629 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
632 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
635 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
636 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
637 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
638 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
639 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
640 running. closes: Bug#187250
641 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
642 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
643 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
644 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
645 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
646 user closes: Bug#176506
648 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
650 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
653 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
654 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
655 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
656 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
657 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
658 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
659 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
660 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
661 deb-building toolchain.
662 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
663 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
664 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
665 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
666 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
667 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
668 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
669 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
670 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
671 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
672 sections about changelog files.
674 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
675 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
676 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
677 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
678 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
679 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
681 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
682 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
683 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
684 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
685 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
686 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
687 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
688 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
689 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
690 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
691 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
692 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
693 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
694 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
695 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
696 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
697 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
698 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
699 for the restructuring
701 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
703 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
706 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
708 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
709 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
710 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
711 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
712 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
713 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
715 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
716 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
717 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
718 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
719 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
720 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
721 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
723 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
724 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
725 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
726 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
728 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
730 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
733 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
734 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
735 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
736 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
737 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
738 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
740 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
741 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
742 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
743 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
745 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
746 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
747 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
748 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
749 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
750 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
751 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
752 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
753 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
755 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
756 script should start it, closes: #60979
757 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
758 "should", closes: #170019
759 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
760 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
761 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
762 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
763 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
764 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
765 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
766 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
769 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
771 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
774 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
775 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
776 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
777 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
778 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
779 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
780 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
781 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
782 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
784 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
785 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
786 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
787 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
788 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
789 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
790 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
791 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
792 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
794 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
795 file, closes: Bug#65764
797 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
799 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
801 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
802 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
803 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
804 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
805 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
806 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
807 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
808 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
809 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
810 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
811 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
812 details. closes: Bug#133030
813 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
814 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
817 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
819 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
821 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
822 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
823 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
824 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
825 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
826 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
827 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
828 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
829 not. closes: Bug#139820
830 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
831 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
832 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
833 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
834 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
835 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
836 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
837 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
838 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
839 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
841 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
843 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
844 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
845 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
846 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
847 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
848 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
849 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
850 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
851 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
852 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
853 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
854 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
855 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
856 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
857 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
858 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
859 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
860 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
861 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
862 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
864 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
865 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
866 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
867 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
868 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
869 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
870 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
872 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
873 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
874 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
875 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
876 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
877 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
878 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
879 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
880 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
882 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
884 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
886 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
887 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
888 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
889 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
890 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
891 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
892 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
893 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
894 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
895 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
896 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
897 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
898 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
899 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
900 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
901 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
902 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
903 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
904 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
905 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
906 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
907 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
908 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
910 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
912 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
914 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
915 medium, high, emergency.
916 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
917 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
918 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
919 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
920 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
923 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
924 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
925 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
927 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
928 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
929 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
930 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
931 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
932 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
933 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
936 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
938 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
940 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
941 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
942 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
943 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
945 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
946 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
947 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
948 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
949 debian/rules to do this
950 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
951 patches are incorporated upstream
952 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
953 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
954 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
955 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
956 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
957 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
959 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
960 system closes: Bug#91249
961 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
962 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
963 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
964 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
965 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
966 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
967 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
968 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
969 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
970 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
971 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
972 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
973 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
975 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
977 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
979 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
980 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
981 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
982 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
984 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
985 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
986 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
988 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
991 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
993 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
995 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
996 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
997 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
998 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
999 package for the time being
1000 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1001 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1002 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1003 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1004 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1005 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1006 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1007 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1008 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1009 Build-Depends arch syntax
1010 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1012 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1013 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1015 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1016 from policy maintenance duties.
1017 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1018 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1020 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1022 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1026 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1028 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1030 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1031 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1032 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1033 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1034 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1035 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1036 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1037 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1038 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1039 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1040 minor version number for this
1041 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1042 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1043 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1044 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1045 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1046 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1047 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1048 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1049 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1051 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1053 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1056 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1057 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1058 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1059 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1061 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1063 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1064 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1065 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1066 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1067 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1068 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1069 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1070 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1071 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1072 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1073 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1074 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1075 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1076 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1077 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1078 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1081 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1083 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1086 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1088 * Document the Enhances relationship
1089 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1090 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1091 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1092 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1093 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1094 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1096 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1098 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1099 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1100 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1101 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1103 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1104 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1105 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1106 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1107 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1109 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1111 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1113 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1114 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1115 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1117 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1118 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1119 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1120 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1121 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1122 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1123 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1124 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1125 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1127 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1129 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1131 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1134 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1135 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1136 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1137 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1138 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1139 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1140 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1141 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1142 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1143 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1144 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1145 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1146 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1147 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1148 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1149 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1150 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1151 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1152 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1153 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1154 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1156 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1157 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1159 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1161 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1164 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1165 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1166 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1167 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1168 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1169 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1170 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1171 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1172 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1173 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1174 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1175 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1176 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1177 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1178 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1179 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1180 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1181 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1182 list closes: Bug#53756
1183 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1184 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1185 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1186 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1187 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1188 policy closes: Bug#53760
1189 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1190 policy closes: Bug#53761
1191 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1192 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1193 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1194 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1195 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1196 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1197 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1198 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1199 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1200 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1201 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1203 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1204 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1205 to install with older fileutils.
1206 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1207 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1208 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1209 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1211 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1212 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1214 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1216 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1219 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1221 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1223 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1225 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1226 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1228 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1231 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1233 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1234 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1236 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1238 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1240 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1243 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1245 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1247 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1250 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1251 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1252 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1253 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1254 directoried (closes: #41547)
1255 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1256 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1257 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1258 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1259 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1260 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1261 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1262 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1263 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1264 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1265 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1267 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1268 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1269 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1270 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1271 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1272 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1273 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1275 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1276 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1277 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1278 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1280 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1282 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1284 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1285 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1287 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1289 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1292 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1294 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1296 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1299 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1301 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1302 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1303 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1304 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1305 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1306 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1307 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1308 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1309 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1310 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1311 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1312 this closes: Bug#38612
1313 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1314 before. closes: Bug#40864
1316 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1318 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1321 officially uploaded.
1322 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1324 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1325 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1326 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1328 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1329 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1330 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1331 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1332 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1333 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1335 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1336 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1337 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1339 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1341 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1342 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1343 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1344 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1345 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1347 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1349 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1352 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1353 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1354 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1355 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1356 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1357 there). closes: Bug#34233
1358 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1359 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1360 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1361 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1362 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1364 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1366 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1369 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1370 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1371 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1374 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1375 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1376 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1377 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1378 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1381 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1382 number. closes: BUG#25911
1384 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1385 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1386 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1387 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1388 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1389 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1391 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1392 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1393 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1396 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1397 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1398 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1400 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1401 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1402 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1403 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1405 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1406 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1407 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1409 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1411 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1412 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1413 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1414 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1415 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1416 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1417 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1418 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1421 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1423 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1424 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1427 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1429 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1433 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1435 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1438 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1439 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1440 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1441 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1442 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1443 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1444 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1446 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1447 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1449 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1451 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1453 * non-maintainer release
1454 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1455 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1457 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1458 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1459 * no content changes
1460 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1462 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1464 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1468 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1470 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1472 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1474 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1475 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1476 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1478 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1479 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1481 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1482 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1483 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1484 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1486 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1487 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1488 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1489 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1490 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1491 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1492 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1494 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1495 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1496 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1499 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1500 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1501 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1503 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1504 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1505 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1507 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1508 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1510 * New version numbering scheme:
1512 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1513 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1514 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1517 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1518 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1519 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1520 differ between the manuals.
1522 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1523 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1524 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1525 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1527 * Packaging changes:
1529 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1530 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1532 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1534 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1536 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1540 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1541 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1542 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1544 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1545 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1548 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1549 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1550 file extension as the referenced file
1552 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1553 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1555 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1556 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1557 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1558 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1561 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1562 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1563 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1565 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1566 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1567 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1568 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1571 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1572 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
1575 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
1576 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
1577 reasonable default configuration
1579 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
1580 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
1581 by all news servers and clients
1583 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
1584 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
1585 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
1586 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
1587 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
1589 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1590 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
1593 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
1595 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1596 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
1598 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
1601 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
1602 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
1604 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
1605 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
1607 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1609 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
1611 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1614 - X library package is now called xlib6g
1615 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1616 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
1618 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
1620 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
1621 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
1622 * Don't use debstd anymore
1624 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
1626 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1629 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
1630 contrib/non-free policy
1631 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
1632 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
1633 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
1634 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
1635 - new section about `Daemons'
1636 - updated section about `Configuration files'
1637 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
1638 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
1639 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1640 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
1641 * Paper about libc6 migration:
1642 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
1643 * SGML source code included in package
1644 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
1646 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
1648 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1651 - completely reworked structure
1652 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
1653 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
1654 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
1655 - removed all those ugly footnotes
1656 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
1657 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
1658 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
1659 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
1660 - mention "orphaned packages"
1661 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
1662 distributions' policy
1663 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
1664 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
1665 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
1666 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
1667 - added section about arch spec strings
1668 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
1669 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
1670 - added section about "menus"
1671 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
1672 the new documentation policy soon
1673 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
1674 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
1676 - added section about editors and pagers
1677 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
1678 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
1679 - added section about device files
1680 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
1681 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
1682 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
1684 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
1685 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
1686 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
1687 - Added new section about obsolete names
1688 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
1689 * Fixed package's description
1691 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
1693 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1695 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
1697 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
1699 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1701 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
1702 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
1703 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
1704 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
1706 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
1708 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1710 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
1711 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
1712 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
1714 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
1715 and upload it "byhand" too.
1717 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
1719 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1722 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
1723 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
1724 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
1725 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
1726 functionality must not have the same name.
1727 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
1728 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
1729 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
1730 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
1731 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
1732 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
1733 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
1735 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
1736 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
1737 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
1738 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
1739 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
1740 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
1741 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
1742 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
1745 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
1747 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
1749 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
1751 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
1752 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
1753 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
1754 a package into. (Guy Maor)
1755 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
1758 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
1760 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
1762 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
1764 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
1765 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
1766 description of deb file format.
1767 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
1768 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
1770 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
1772 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
1773 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
1775 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
1777 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
1779 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
1780 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
1781 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
1782 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
1783 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
1784 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
1785 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
1786 packages in section on Procedure
1787 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
1788 a package maintainer
1789 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
1790 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
1791 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
1793 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
1794 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
1795 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
1796 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
1797 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
1798 on various shlib files
1799 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
1800 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
1801 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
1803 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
1805 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
1807 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
1808 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
1809 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
1811 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
1812 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
1813 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
1814 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
1815 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
1817 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
1819 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
1821 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
1823 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
1825 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
1826 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
1827 compatibility go in contrib.
1829 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
1830 instructions in policy manual.
1831 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
1834 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
1836 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
1838 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
1839 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
1840 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
1841 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
1843 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
1844 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
1847 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
1849 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
1851 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
1852 * More detail about changelog format names.
1854 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
1855 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
1859 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
1861 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
1863 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
1865 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
1867 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
1869 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
1871 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
1873 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
1874 * More verbosity about netiquette.
1875 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
1877 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
1879 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
1881 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
1883 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
1885 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
1889 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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