1 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
4 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
5 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
7 Closes: #459868, #581011
8 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
9 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
10 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
11 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
13 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
14 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
15 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
16 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
18 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
19 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
20 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
21 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
23 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
24 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
25 machine. (Closes: #591857)
26 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
27 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
28 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
29 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
30 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
31 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
32 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
33 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
34 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
35 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
37 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
38 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
39 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
40 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
41 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
42 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
43 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
44 than the version in oldstable.
45 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
46 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
47 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
48 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
50 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:47:47 -0700
52 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
54 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
55 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
56 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
57 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
58 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
60 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
61 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
62 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
63 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
65 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
66 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
67 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
68 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
70 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
71 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
72 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
73 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
74 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
75 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
76 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
77 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
78 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
80 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
81 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
82 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
83 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
85 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
86 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
87 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
88 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
90 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
91 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
92 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
93 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
95 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
96 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
97 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
98 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
100 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
101 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
102 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
103 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
104 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
106 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
107 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
108 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
109 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
110 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
112 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
113 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
114 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
115 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
117 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
118 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
119 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
120 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
122 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
123 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
124 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
125 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
127 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
128 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
129 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
130 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
132 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
133 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
134 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
135 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
137 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
138 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
139 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
140 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
142 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
144 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
145 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
146 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
147 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
148 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
149 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
150 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
151 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
152 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
154 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
155 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
156 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
157 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
158 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
159 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
161 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
163 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
166 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
169 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
172 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
173 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
174 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
175 and distribution license' (three times).
176 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
177 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
178 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
179 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
180 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
182 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
184 Proposed by Santiago Vila
185 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
186 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
187 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
188 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
192 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
193 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
194 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
195 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
197 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
198 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
199 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
200 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
201 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
202 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
204 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
205 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
206 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
207 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
209 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
210 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
211 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
212 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
213 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
215 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
216 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
217 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
218 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
219 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
221 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
222 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
223 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
224 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
225 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
227 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
228 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
229 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
230 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
232 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
233 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
234 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
235 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
236 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
238 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
239 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
240 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
241 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
243 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
244 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
245 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
246 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
248 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
249 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
250 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
251 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
252 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
254 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
255 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
256 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
257 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
259 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
260 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
261 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
262 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
263 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
265 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
266 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
267 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
268 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
270 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
271 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
272 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
273 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
274 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
275 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
276 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
277 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
278 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
279 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
280 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
281 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
282 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
283 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
284 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
285 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
286 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
287 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
288 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
289 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
290 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
291 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
292 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
293 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
294 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
295 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
296 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
297 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
298 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
299 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
300 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
301 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
303 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
305 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
307 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
310 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
311 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
313 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
314 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
318 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
321 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
322 Wording: Steve Langasek.
323 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
324 Seconded: Julien Cristau
325 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
328 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
329 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
330 Seconded: Russ Allbery
331 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
334 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
335 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
336 Seconded: Russ Allbery
338 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
339 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
340 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
341 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
342 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
343 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
344 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
345 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
346 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
348 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
349 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
350 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
351 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
352 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
353 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
354 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
355 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
356 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
357 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
358 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
359 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
360 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
361 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
362 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
363 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
365 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
366 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
367 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
368 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
369 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
371 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
374 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
375 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
376 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
377 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
378 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
379 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
382 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
384 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
386 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
387 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
388 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
389 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
391 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
392 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
393 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
394 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
396 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
397 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
398 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
399 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
401 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
402 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
403 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
404 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
405 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
406 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
408 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
409 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
410 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
411 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
412 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
414 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
415 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
416 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
417 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
419 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
420 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
421 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
422 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
424 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
425 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
426 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
427 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
429 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
430 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
431 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
432 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
434 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
435 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
436 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
437 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
439 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
440 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
441 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
442 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
443 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
444 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
445 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
446 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
447 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
448 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
449 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
450 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
451 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
452 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
453 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
455 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
456 Source field descriptions.
457 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
458 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
459 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
460 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
461 description says otherwise.
463 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
465 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
468 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
469 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
470 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
471 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
472 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
473 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
475 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
476 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
477 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
478 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
480 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
481 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
482 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
483 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
485 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
486 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
487 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
488 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
490 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
491 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
492 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
493 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
497 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
498 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
499 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
500 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
501 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
503 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
504 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
505 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
506 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
508 * Add myself to Uploaders.
511 * Add myself to Uploaders.
512 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
514 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
515 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
516 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
518 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
520 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
522 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
523 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
524 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
525 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
527 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
528 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
529 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
530 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
532 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
533 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
534 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
535 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
537 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
538 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
539 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
540 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
542 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
543 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
544 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
545 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
547 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
548 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
549 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
550 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
552 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
553 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
554 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
555 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
557 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
558 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
559 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
560 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
562 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
563 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
564 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
565 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
567 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
568 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
569 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
570 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
572 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
573 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
574 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
575 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
576 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
578 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
579 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
580 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
581 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
582 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
583 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
584 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
585 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
586 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
587 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
588 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
589 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
590 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
591 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
592 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
593 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
594 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
595 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
596 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
597 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
598 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
599 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
600 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
601 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
602 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
603 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
604 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
605 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
606 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
607 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
609 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
610 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
611 links was completed long ago.
612 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
614 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
616 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
618 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
619 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
621 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
623 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
625 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
626 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
627 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
628 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
629 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
630 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
631 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
632 Millan (Closes: #209008).
633 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
634 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
636 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
638 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
640 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
641 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
642 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
643 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
644 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
645 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
646 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
648 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
649 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
650 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
651 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
653 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
654 Küster (Closes: #403391).
655 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
656 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
657 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
658 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
659 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
660 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
661 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
662 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
663 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
664 Closes: #186700, #458910
665 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
666 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
667 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
669 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
670 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
671 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
672 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
673 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
674 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
675 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
676 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
678 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
679 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
681 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
682 * Add an md5sums control file.
683 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
684 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
685 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
686 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
687 currently part of policy.
688 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
689 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
690 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
693 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
695 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
697 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
698 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
699 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
700 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
701 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
702 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
703 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
704 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
705 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
706 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
707 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
708 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
709 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
710 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
711 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
712 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
714 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
716 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
717 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
718 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
720 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
721 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
722 list?" (Closes: #412634).
723 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
724 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
725 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
726 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
727 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
728 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
729 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
730 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
731 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
732 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
733 debconf specification.
734 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
735 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
737 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
739 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
741 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
742 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
743 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
744 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
745 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
747 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
749 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
750 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
751 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
752 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
753 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
755 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
756 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
757 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
758 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
759 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
760 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
761 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
762 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
763 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
764 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
765 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
766 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
767 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
768 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
769 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
770 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
772 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
774 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
775 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
776 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
777 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
778 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
779 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
780 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
781 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
783 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
785 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
787 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
788 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
789 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
790 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
791 Polo (Closes: #372497).
792 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
793 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
795 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
796 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
797 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
798 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
799 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
800 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
801 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
802 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
803 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
804 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
806 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
807 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
808 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
809 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
810 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
811 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
813 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
815 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
817 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
818 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
819 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
820 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
822 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
823 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
825 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
827 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
829 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
830 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
831 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
832 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
833 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
834 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
835 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
836 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
837 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
838 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
840 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
841 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
842 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
843 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
844 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
845 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
846 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
847 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
848 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
849 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
850 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
853 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
855 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
857 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
858 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
859 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
860 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
861 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
862 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
863 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
864 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
865 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
866 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
867 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
868 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
869 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
870 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
871 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
872 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
873 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
874 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
875 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
876 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
877 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
878 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
879 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
880 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
881 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
882 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
883 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
884 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
886 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
887 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
888 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
889 Hess (Closes: #362247).
890 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
891 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
892 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
893 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
894 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
895 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
896 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
897 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
898 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
899 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
900 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
901 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
903 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
904 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
906 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
907 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
908 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
909 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
910 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
911 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
912 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
913 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
914 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
915 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
916 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
918 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
920 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
923 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
924 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
925 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
926 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
927 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
928 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
929 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
930 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
931 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
932 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
933 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
934 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
935 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
937 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
938 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
939 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
940 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
941 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
942 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
943 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
944 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
945 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
946 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
947 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
948 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
949 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
950 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
951 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
952 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
953 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
954 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
955 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
958 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
960 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
962 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
963 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
964 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
965 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
967 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
968 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
969 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
970 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
972 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
974 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
977 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
978 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
979 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
980 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
981 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
982 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
983 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
984 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
985 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
986 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
988 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
989 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
990 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
992 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
993 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
994 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
995 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
996 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
997 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
998 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1000 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1001 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1002 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1003 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1005 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1006 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1007 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1008 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1009 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1010 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1011 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1012 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1014 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1015 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1016 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1017 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1018 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1019 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1020 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1021 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1022 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1023 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1024 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1025 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1026 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1027 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1028 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1029 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1030 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1032 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1034 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1037 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1038 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1039 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1040 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1041 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1042 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1043 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1044 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1045 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1047 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1048 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1049 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1050 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1051 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1052 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1053 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1054 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1055 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1056 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1057 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1058 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1059 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1060 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1061 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1062 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1063 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1065 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1066 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1067 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1070 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1071 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1072 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1074 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1075 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1076 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1077 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1078 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1079 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1081 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1082 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1084 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1085 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1086 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1087 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1088 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1089 Closes: #185943, #237049
1091 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1093 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1096 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1099 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1100 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1101 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1102 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1103 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1104 running. closes: Bug#187250
1105 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1106 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1107 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1108 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1109 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1110 user closes: Bug#176506
1112 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1114 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1118 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1119 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1120 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1121 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1122 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1123 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1124 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1125 deb-building toolchain.
1126 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1127 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1128 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1129 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1130 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1131 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1132 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1133 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1134 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1135 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1136 sections about changelog files.
1138 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1139 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1140 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1141 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1142 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1143 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1145 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1146 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1147 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1148 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1149 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1150 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1151 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1152 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1153 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1154 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1155 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1156 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1157 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1158 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1159 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1160 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1161 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1162 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1163 for the restructuring
1165 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1167 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1172 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1173 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1174 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1175 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1176 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1177 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1179 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1180 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1181 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1182 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1183 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1184 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1185 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1187 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1188 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1189 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1190 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1192 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1194 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1198 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1199 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1200 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1201 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1202 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1204 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1205 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1206 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1207 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1209 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1210 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1211 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1212 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1213 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1214 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1215 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1216 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1217 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1218 offtopic stuff, too.
1219 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1220 script should start it, closes: #60979
1221 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1222 "should", closes: #170019
1223 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1224 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1225 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1226 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1227 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1228 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1229 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1230 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1233 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1235 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1238 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1239 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1240 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1241 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1242 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1243 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1244 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1245 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1246 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1248 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1249 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1250 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1251 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1252 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1253 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1254 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1255 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1256 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1258 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1259 file, closes: Bug#65764
1261 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1263 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1265 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1266 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1267 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1268 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1269 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1270 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1271 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1272 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1273 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1274 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1275 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1276 details. closes: Bug#133030
1277 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1278 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1279 parts of Bug#161455.
1281 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1283 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1286 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1287 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1288 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1289 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1290 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1291 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1292 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1293 not. closes: Bug#139820
1294 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1295 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1296 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1297 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1298 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1299 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1300 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1301 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1302 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1303 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1305 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1307 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1308 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1309 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1310 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1311 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1312 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1313 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1314 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1315 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1316 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1317 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1318 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1319 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1320 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1321 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1322 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1323 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1324 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1325 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1326 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1328 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1329 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1330 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1331 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1332 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1333 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1334 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1336 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1337 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1338 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1339 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1340 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1341 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1342 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1343 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1344 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1346 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1348 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1350 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1351 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1352 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1353 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1354 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1355 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1356 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1357 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1358 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1359 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1360 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1361 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1362 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1363 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1364 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1365 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1366 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1367 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1368 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1369 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1370 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1371 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1372 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1374 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1376 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1379 medium, high, emergency.
1380 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1381 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1382 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1383 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1384 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1387 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1388 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1389 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1391 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1392 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1393 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1394 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1395 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1396 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1397 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1400 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1402 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1405 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1406 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1407 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1409 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1410 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1411 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1412 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1413 debian/rules to do this
1414 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1415 patches are incorporated upstream
1416 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1417 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1418 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1419 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1420 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1421 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1423 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1424 system closes: Bug#91249
1425 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1426 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1427 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1428 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1429 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1430 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1431 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1432 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1433 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1434 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1435 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1436 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1437 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1439 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1441 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1443 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1444 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1445 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1446 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1448 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1449 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1450 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1452 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1455 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1457 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1460 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1461 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1462 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1463 package for the time being
1464 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1465 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1466 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1467 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1468 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1469 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1470 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1471 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1472 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1473 Build-Depends arch syntax
1474 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1476 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1477 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1479 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1480 from policy maintenance duties.
1481 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1482 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1484 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1486 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1488 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1490 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1492 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1495 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1496 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1497 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1498 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1499 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1500 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1501 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1502 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1503 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1504 minor version number for this
1505 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1506 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1507 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1508 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1509 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1510 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1511 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1512 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1513 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1515 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1517 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1519 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1520 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1521 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1522 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1523 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1525 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1527 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1528 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1529 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1530 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1531 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1532 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1533 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1534 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1535 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1536 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1537 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1538 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1539 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1540 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1541 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1542 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1545 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1547 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1550 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1552 * Document the Enhances relationship
1553 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1554 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1555 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1556 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1557 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1558 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1560 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1562 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1563 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1564 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1565 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1567 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1568 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1569 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1570 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1571 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1573 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1575 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1578 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1579 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1581 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1582 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1583 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1584 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1585 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1586 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1587 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1588 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1589 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1591 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1593 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1595 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1598 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1599 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1600 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1601 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1602 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1603 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1604 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1605 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1606 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1607 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1608 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1609 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1610 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1611 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1612 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1613 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1614 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1615 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1616 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1617 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1618 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1620 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1621 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1623 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1625 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1628 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1629 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1630 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1631 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1632 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1633 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1634 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1635 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1636 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1637 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1638 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1639 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1640 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1641 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1642 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1643 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1644 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1645 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1646 list closes: Bug#53756
1647 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1648 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1649 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1650 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1651 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1652 policy closes: Bug#53760
1653 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1654 policy closes: Bug#53761
1655 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1656 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1657 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1658 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1659 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1660 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1661 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1662 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1663 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1664 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1665 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1667 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1668 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1669 to install with older fileutils.
1670 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1671 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1672 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1673 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1675 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1676 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1678 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1680 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1683 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1685 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1687 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1690 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1692 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1695 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1698 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1700 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1702 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1704 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1706 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1707 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1709 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1711 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1714 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1715 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1716 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1717 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1718 directoried (closes: #41547)
1719 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1720 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1721 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1722 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1723 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1724 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1725 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1726 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1727 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1728 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1729 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1731 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1732 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1733 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1734 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1735 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1736 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1737 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1739 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1740 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1741 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1742 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1744 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1746 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1748 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1749 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1751 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1753 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1755 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1756 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1758 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1760 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1763 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1765 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1766 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1767 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1768 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1769 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1770 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1771 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1772 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1773 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1774 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1775 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1776 this closes: Bug#38612
1777 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1778 before. closes: Bug#40864
1780 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1782 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1785 officially uploaded.
1786 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1788 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1789 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1790 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1792 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1793 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1794 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1795 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1796 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1797 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1799 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1800 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1801 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1803 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1805 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1806 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1807 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1808 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1809 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1811 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1813 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1816 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1817 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1818 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1819 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1820 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1821 there). closes: Bug#34233
1822 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1823 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1824 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1825 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1826 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1828 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1830 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1833 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1834 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1835 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1838 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1839 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1840 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1841 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1842 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1845 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1846 number. closes: BUG#25911
1848 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1849 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1850 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1851 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1852 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1853 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1855 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1856 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1857 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1860 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1861 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1862 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1864 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1865 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1866 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1867 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1869 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1870 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1871 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1873 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1875 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1876 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1877 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1878 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1879 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1880 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1881 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1882 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1885 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1887 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1888 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1891 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1893 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1897 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1899 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1902 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1903 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1904 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1905 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1906 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1907 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1908 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1910 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1911 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1913 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1915 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1917 * non-maintainer release
1918 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1919 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1921 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1922 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1923 * no content changes
1924 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1926 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1928 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1932 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1934 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1936 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1938 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1939 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1940 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1942 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1943 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1945 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1946 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1947 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1948 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1950 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1951 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1952 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1953 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1954 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1955 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1956 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1958 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1959 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1960 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1963 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1964 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1965 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1967 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1968 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1969 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1971 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1972 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1974 * New version numbering scheme:
1976 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1977 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1978 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1981 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1982 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1983 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1984 differ between the manuals.
1986 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1987 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1988 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1989 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1991 * Packaging changes:
1993 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1994 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1996 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1998 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2000 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2004 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2005 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2006 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2008 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2009 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2012 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2013 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2014 file extension as the referenced file
2016 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2017 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2019 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2020 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2021 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2022 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2025 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2026 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2027 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2029 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2030 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2031 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2032 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2035 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2036 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2039 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2040 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2041 reasonable default configuration
2043 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2044 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2045 by all news servers and clients
2047 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2048 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2049 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2050 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2051 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2053 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2054 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2057 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2059 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2060 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2062 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2065 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2066 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2068 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2069 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2071 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2073 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2075 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2078 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2079 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2080 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2082 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2084 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2085 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2086 * Don't use debstd anymore
2088 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2090 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2093 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2094 contrib/non-free policy
2095 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2096 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2097 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2098 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2099 - new section about `Daemons'
2100 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2101 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2102 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2103 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2104 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2105 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2106 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2107 * SGML source code included in package
2108 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2110 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2112 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2115 - completely reworked structure
2116 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2117 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2118 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2119 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2120 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2121 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2122 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2123 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2124 - mention "orphaned packages"
2125 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2126 distributions' policy
2127 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2128 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2129 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2130 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2131 - added section about arch spec strings
2132 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2133 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2134 - added section about "menus"
2135 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2136 the new documentation policy soon
2137 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2138 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2140 - added section about editors and pagers
2141 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2142 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2143 - added section about device files
2144 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2145 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2146 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2148 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2149 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2150 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2151 - Added new section about obsolete names
2152 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2153 * Fixed package's description
2155 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2157 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2159 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2161 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2163 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2165 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2166 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2167 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2168 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2170 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2172 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2174 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2175 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2176 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2178 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2179 and upload it "byhand" too.
2181 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2183 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2187 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2188 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2189 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2190 functionality must not have the same name.
2191 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2192 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2193 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2194 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2195 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2196 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2197 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2199 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2200 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2201 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2202 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2203 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2204 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2205 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2206 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2209 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2211 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2213 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2215 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2216 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2217 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2218 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2219 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2222 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2224 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2226 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2228 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2229 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2230 description of deb file format.
2231 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2232 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2234 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2236 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2237 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2239 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2241 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2243 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2244 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2245 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2246 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2247 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2248 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2249 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2250 packages in section on Procedure
2251 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2252 a package maintainer
2253 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2254 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2255 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2257 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2258 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2259 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2260 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2261 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2262 on various shlib files
2263 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2264 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2265 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2267 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2269 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2271 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2272 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2273 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2275 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2276 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2277 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2278 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2279 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2281 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2283 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2285 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2287 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2289 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2290 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2291 compatibility go in contrib.
2293 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2294 instructions in policy manual.
2295 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2298 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2300 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2302 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2303 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2304 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2305 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2307 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2308 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2311 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2313 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2315 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2316 * More detail about changelog format names.
2318 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2319 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2323 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2325 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2327 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2329 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2331 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2333 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2335 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2337 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2338 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2339 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2341 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2343 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2345 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2347 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2349 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2353 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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