1 debian-policy (3.7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
4 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
5 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
7 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
9 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
10 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
11 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
12 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
13 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
14 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
15 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
17 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
18 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
19 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
20 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
22 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
23 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
24 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
25 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
26 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
27 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
28 currently part of policy.
29 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
30 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
34 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
36 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
37 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
38 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
39 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
40 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
41 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
42 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
43 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
44 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
45 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
46 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
47 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
48 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
49 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
50 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
51 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
53 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
55 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
56 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
57 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
59 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
60 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
61 list?" (Closes: #412634).
62 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
63 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
64 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
65 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
66 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
67 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
68 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
69 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
70 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
71 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
72 debconf specification.
73 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
74 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
76 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
78 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
80 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
81 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
82 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
83 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
84 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
86 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
88 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
89 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
90 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
91 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
92 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
94 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
95 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
96 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
97 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
98 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
99 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
100 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
101 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
102 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
103 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
104 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
105 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
106 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
107 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
108 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
109 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
111 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
113 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
114 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
115 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
116 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
117 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
118 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
119 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
120 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
122 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
124 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
126 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
127 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
128 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
129 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
130 Polo (Closes: #372497).
131 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
132 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
134 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
135 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
136 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
137 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
138 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
139 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
140 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
141 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
142 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
143 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
145 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
146 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
147 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
148 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
149 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
150 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
152 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
154 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
156 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
157 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
158 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
159 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
161 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
162 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
164 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
166 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
168 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
169 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
170 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
171 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
172 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
173 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
174 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
175 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
176 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
177 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
179 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
180 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
181 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
182 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
183 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
184 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
185 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
186 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
187 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
188 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
189 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
192 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
194 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
196 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
197 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
198 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
199 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
200 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
201 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
202 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
203 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
204 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
205 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
206 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
207 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
208 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
209 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
210 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
211 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
212 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
213 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
214 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
215 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
216 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
217 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
218 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
219 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
220 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
221 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
222 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
223 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
225 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
226 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
227 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
228 Hess (Closes: #362247).
229 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
230 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
231 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
232 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
233 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
234 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
235 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
236 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
237 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
238 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
239 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
240 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
242 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
243 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
245 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
246 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
247 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
248 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
249 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
250 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
251 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
252 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
253 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
254 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
255 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
257 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
259 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
262 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
263 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
264 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
265 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
266 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
267 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
268 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
269 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
270 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
271 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
272 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
273 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
274 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
276 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
277 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
278 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
279 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
280 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
281 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
282 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
283 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
284 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
285 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
286 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
287 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
288 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
289 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
290 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
291 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
292 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
293 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
294 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
297 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
299 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
301 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
302 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
303 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
304 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
306 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
307 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
308 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
309 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
311 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
313 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
316 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
317 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
318 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
319 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
320 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
321 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
322 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
323 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
324 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
325 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
327 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
328 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
329 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
331 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
332 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
333 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
334 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
335 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
336 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
337 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
339 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
340 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
341 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
342 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
344 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
345 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
346 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
347 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
348 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
349 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
350 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
351 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
353 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
354 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
355 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
356 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
357 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
358 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
359 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
360 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
361 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
362 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
363 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
364 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
365 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
366 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
367 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
368 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
369 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
371 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
373 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
376 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
377 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
378 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
379 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
380 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
381 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
382 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
383 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
384 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
386 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
387 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
388 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
389 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
390 this section. closes: Bug#248618
391 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
392 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
393 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
394 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
395 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
396 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
397 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
398 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
399 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
400 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
401 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
402 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
404 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
405 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
406 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
409 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
410 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
411 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
413 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
414 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
415 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
416 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
417 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
418 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
420 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
421 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
423 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
424 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
425 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
426 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
427 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
428 Closes: #185943, #237049
430 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
432 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
435 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
438 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
439 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
440 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
441 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
442 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
443 running. closes: Bug#187250
444 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
445 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
446 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
447 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
448 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
449 user closes: Bug#176506
451 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
453 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
456 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
457 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
458 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
459 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
460 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
461 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
462 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
463 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
464 deb-building toolchain.
465 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
466 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
467 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
468 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
469 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
470 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
471 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
472 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
473 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
474 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
475 sections about changelog files.
477 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
478 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
479 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
480 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
481 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
482 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
484 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
485 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
486 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
487 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
488 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
489 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
490 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
491 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
492 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
493 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
494 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
495 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
496 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
497 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
498 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
499 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
500 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
501 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
502 for the restructuring
504 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
506 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
509 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
511 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
512 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
513 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
514 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
515 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
516 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
518 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
519 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
520 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
521 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
522 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
523 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
524 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
526 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
527 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
528 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
529 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
531 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
533 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
536 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
537 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
538 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
539 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
540 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
541 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
543 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
544 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
545 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
546 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
548 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
549 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
550 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
551 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
552 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
553 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
554 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
555 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
556 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
558 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
559 script should start it, closes: #60979
560 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
561 "should", closes: #170019
562 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
563 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
564 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
565 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
566 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
567 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
568 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
569 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
572 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
574 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
577 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
578 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
579 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
580 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
581 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
582 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
583 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
584 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
585 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
587 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
588 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
589 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
590 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
591 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
592 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
593 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
594 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
595 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
597 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
598 file, closes: Bug#65764
600 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
602 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
604 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
605 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
606 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
607 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
608 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
609 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
610 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
611 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
612 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
613 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
614 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
615 details. closes: Bug#133030
616 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
617 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
620 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
622 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
624 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
625 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
626 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
627 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
628 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
629 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
630 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
631 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
632 not. closes: Bug#139820
633 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
634 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
635 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
636 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
637 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
638 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
639 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
640 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
641 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
642 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
644 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
646 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
647 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
648 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
649 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
650 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
651 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
652 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
653 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
654 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
655 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
656 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
657 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
658 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
659 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
660 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
661 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
662 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
663 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
664 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
665 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
667 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
668 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
669 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
670 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
671 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
672 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
673 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
675 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
676 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
677 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
678 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
679 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
680 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
681 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
682 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
683 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
685 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
687 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
689 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
690 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
691 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
692 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
693 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
694 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
695 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
696 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
697 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
698 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
699 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
700 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
701 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
702 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
703 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
704 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
705 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
706 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
707 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
708 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
709 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
710 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
711 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
713 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
715 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
717 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
718 medium, high, emergency.
719 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
720 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
721 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
722 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
723 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
726 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
727 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
728 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
730 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
731 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
732 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
733 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
734 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
735 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
736 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
739 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
741 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
743 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
744 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
745 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
746 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
748 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
749 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
750 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
751 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
752 debian/rules to do this
753 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
754 patches are incorporated upstream
755 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
756 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
757 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
758 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
759 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
760 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
762 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
763 system closes: Bug#91249
764 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
765 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
766 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
767 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
768 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
769 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
770 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
771 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
772 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
773 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
774 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
775 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
776 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
778 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
780 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
782 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
783 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
784 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
785 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
787 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
788 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
789 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
791 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
794 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
796 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
798 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
799 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
800 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
801 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
802 package for the time being
803 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
804 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
805 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
806 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
807 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
808 * Rename all .text files as .txt
809 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
810 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
811 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
812 Build-Depends arch syntax
813 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
815 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
816 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
818 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
819 from policy maintenance duties.
820 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
821 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
823 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
825 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
827 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
829 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
831 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
833 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
834 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
835 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
836 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
837 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
838 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
839 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
840 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
841 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
842 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
843 minor version number for this
844 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
845 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
846 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
847 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
848 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
849 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
850 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
851 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
852 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
854 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
856 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
858 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
859 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
860 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
861 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
862 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
864 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
866 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
867 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
868 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
869 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
870 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
871 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
872 xutils closes: Bug#82966
873 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
874 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
875 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
876 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
877 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
878 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
879 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
880 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
881 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
884 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
886 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
888 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
889 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
891 * Document the Enhances relationship
892 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
893 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
894 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
895 policy. closes: Bug#53496
896 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
897 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
899 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
901 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
902 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
903 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
904 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
906 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
907 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
908 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
909 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
910 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
912 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
914 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
916 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
917 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
918 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
920 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
921 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
922 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
923 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
924 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
925 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
926 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
927 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
928 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
930 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
932 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
934 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
936 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
937 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
938 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
939 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
940 policy. closes: Bug#64437
941 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
942 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
943 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
944 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
945 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
946 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
947 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
948 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
949 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
950 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
951 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
952 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
953 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
954 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
955 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
956 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
957 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
959 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
960 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
962 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
964 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
966 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
967 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
968 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
969 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
970 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
971 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
972 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
973 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
974 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
975 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
976 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
977 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
978 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
979 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
980 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
981 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
982 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
983 alternative closes: Bug#53755
984 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
985 list closes: Bug#53756
986 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
987 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
988 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
989 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
990 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
991 policy closes: Bug#53760
992 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
993 policy closes: Bug#53761
994 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
995 that use X closes: Bug#53762
996 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
997 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
998 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
999 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1000 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1001 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1002 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1003 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1004 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1006 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1007 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1008 to install with older fileutils.
1009 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1010 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1011 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1012 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1014 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1015 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1017 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1019 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1022 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1024 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1026 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1029 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1031 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1034 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1037 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1039 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1041 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1043 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1045 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1046 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1048 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1050 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1053 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1054 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1055 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1056 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1057 directoried (closes: #41547)
1058 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1059 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1060 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1061 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1062 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1063 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1064 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1065 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1066 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1067 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1068 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1070 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1071 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1072 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1073 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1074 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1075 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1076 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1078 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1079 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1080 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1081 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1083 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1085 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1087 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1088 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1090 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1092 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1095 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1097 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1099 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1102 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1104 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1105 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1106 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1107 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1108 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1109 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1110 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1111 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1112 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1113 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1114 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1115 this closes: Bug#38612
1116 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1117 before. closes: Bug#40864
1119 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1121 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1124 officially uploaded.
1125 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1127 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1128 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1129 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1131 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1132 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1133 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1134 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1135 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1136 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1138 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1139 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1140 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1142 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1144 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1145 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1146 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1147 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1148 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1150 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1152 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1155 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1156 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1157 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1158 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1159 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1160 there). closes: Bug#34233
1161 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1162 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1163 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1164 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1165 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1167 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1169 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1171 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1172 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1173 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1174 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1177 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1178 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1179 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1180 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1181 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1184 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1185 number. closes: BUG#25911
1187 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1188 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1189 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1190 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1191 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1192 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1194 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1195 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1196 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1199 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1200 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1201 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1203 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1204 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1205 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1206 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1208 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1209 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1210 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1212 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1214 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1215 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1216 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1217 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1218 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1219 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1220 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1221 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1224 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1226 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1227 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1230 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1232 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1236 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1238 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1241 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1242 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1243 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1244 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1245 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1246 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1247 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1249 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1250 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1252 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1254 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1256 * non-maintainer release
1257 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1258 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1260 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1261 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1262 * no content changes
1263 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1265 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1267 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1271 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1273 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1275 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1277 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1278 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1279 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1281 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1282 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1284 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1285 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1286 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1287 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1289 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1290 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1291 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1292 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1293 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1294 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1295 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1297 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1298 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1299 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1302 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1303 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1304 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1306 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1307 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1308 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1310 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1311 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1313 * New version numbering scheme:
1315 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1316 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1317 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1320 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1321 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1322 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1323 differ between the manuals.
1325 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1326 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1327 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1328 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1330 * Packaging changes:
1332 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1333 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1335 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1337 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1339 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1343 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1344 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1345 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1347 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1348 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1351 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1352 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1353 file extension as the referenced file
1355 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1356 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1358 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1359 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1360 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1361 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1364 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1365 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1366 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1368 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1369 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1370 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1371 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1374 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1375 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
1378 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
1379 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
1380 reasonable default configuration
1382 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
1383 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
1384 by all news servers and clients
1386 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
1387 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
1388 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
1389 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
1390 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
1392 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1393 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
1396 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
1398 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1399 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
1401 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
1404 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
1405 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
1407 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
1408 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
1410 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1412 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
1414 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1417 - X library package is now called xlib6g
1418 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1419 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
1421 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
1423 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
1424 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
1425 * Don't use debstd anymore
1427 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
1429 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1432 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
1433 contrib/non-free policy
1434 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
1435 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
1436 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
1437 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
1438 - new section about `Daemons'
1439 - updated section about `Configuration files'
1440 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
1441 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
1442 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1443 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
1444 * Paper about libc6 migration:
1445 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
1446 * SGML source code included in package
1447 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
1449 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
1451 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1453 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1454 - completely reworked structure
1455 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
1456 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
1457 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
1458 - removed all those ugly footnotes
1459 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
1460 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
1461 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
1462 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
1463 - mention "orphaned packages"
1464 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
1465 distributions' policy
1466 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
1467 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
1468 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
1469 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
1470 - added section about arch spec strings
1471 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
1472 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
1473 - added section about "menus"
1474 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
1475 the new documentation policy soon
1476 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
1477 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
1479 - added section about editors and pagers
1480 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
1481 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
1482 - added section about device files
1483 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
1484 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
1485 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
1487 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
1488 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
1489 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
1490 - Added new section about obsolete names
1491 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
1492 * Fixed package's description
1494 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
1496 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1498 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
1500 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
1502 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1504 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
1505 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
1506 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
1507 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
1509 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
1511 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1513 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
1514 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
1515 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
1517 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
1518 and upload it "byhand" too.
1520 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
1522 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1525 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
1526 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
1527 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
1528 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
1529 functionality must not have the same name.
1530 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
1531 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
1532 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
1533 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
1534 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
1535 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
1536 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
1538 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
1539 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
1540 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
1541 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
1542 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
1543 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
1544 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
1545 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
1548 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
1550 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
1552 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
1554 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
1555 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
1556 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
1557 a package into. (Guy Maor)
1558 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
1561 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
1563 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
1565 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
1567 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
1568 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
1569 description of deb file format.
1570 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
1571 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
1573 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
1575 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
1576 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
1578 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
1580 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
1582 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
1583 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
1584 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
1585 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
1586 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
1587 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
1588 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
1589 packages in section on Procedure
1590 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
1591 a package maintainer
1592 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
1593 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
1594 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
1596 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
1597 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
1598 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
1599 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
1600 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
1601 on various shlib files
1602 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
1603 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
1604 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
1606 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
1608 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
1610 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
1611 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
1612 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
1614 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
1615 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
1616 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
1617 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
1618 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
1620 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
1622 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
1624 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
1626 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
1628 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
1629 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
1630 compatibility go in contrib.
1632 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
1633 instructions in policy manual.
1634 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
1637 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
1639 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
1641 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
1642 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
1643 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
1644 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
1646 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
1647 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
1650 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
1652 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
1654 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
1655 * More detail about changelog format names.
1657 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
1658 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
1662 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
1664 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
1666 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
1668 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
1670 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
1672 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
1674 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
1676 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
1677 * More verbosity about netiquette.
1678 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
1680 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
1682 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
1684 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
1686 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
1688 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
1692 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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