1 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
4 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
5 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
7 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
9 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
10 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
11 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
12 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
14 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
15 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
16 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
17 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
19 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
20 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
21 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
22 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
23 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
24 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
25 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
26 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
27 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
29 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
30 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
31 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
32 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
34 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
35 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
36 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
37 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
39 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
40 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
41 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
42 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
44 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
45 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
46 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
47 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
49 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
50 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
51 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
52 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
53 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
55 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
56 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
57 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
58 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
59 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
61 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
62 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
63 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
64 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
66 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
67 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
68 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
69 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
71 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
72 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
73 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
74 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
76 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
77 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
78 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
79 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
81 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
82 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
83 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
84 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
86 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
87 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
88 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
89 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
91 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
93 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
94 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
95 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
96 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
97 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
98 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
99 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
100 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
101 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
103 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
104 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
105 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
106 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
107 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
109 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
111 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
114 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
117 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
120 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
121 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
122 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
123 and distribution license' (three times).
124 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
125 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
126 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
127 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
128 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
130 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
132 Proposed by Santiago Vila
133 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
134 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
135 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
136 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
140 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
141 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
142 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
143 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
145 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
146 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
147 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
148 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
149 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
150 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
152 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
153 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
154 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
155 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
157 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
158 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
159 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
160 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
161 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
163 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
164 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
165 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
166 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
167 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
169 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
170 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
171 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
172 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
173 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
175 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
176 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
177 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
178 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
180 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
181 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
182 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
183 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
184 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
186 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
187 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
188 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
189 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
191 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
192 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
193 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
194 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
196 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
197 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
198 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
199 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
200 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
202 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
203 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
204 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
205 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
207 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
208 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
209 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
210 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
211 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
213 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
214 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
215 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
216 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
218 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
219 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
220 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
221 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
222 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
223 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
224 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
225 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
226 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
227 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
228 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
229 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
230 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
231 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
232 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
233 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
234 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
235 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
236 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
237 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
238 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
239 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
240 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
241 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
242 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
243 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
244 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
245 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
246 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
247 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
248 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
249 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
251 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
253 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
255 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
258 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
259 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
261 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
262 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
266 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
269 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
270 Wording: Steve Langasek.
271 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
272 Seconded: Julien Cristau
273 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
276 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
277 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
278 Seconded: Russ Allbery
279 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
282 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
283 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
284 Seconded: Russ Allbery
286 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
287 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
288 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
289 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
290 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
291 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
292 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
293 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
294 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
296 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
297 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
298 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
299 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
300 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
301 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
302 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
303 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
304 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
305 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
306 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
307 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
308 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
309 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
310 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
311 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
313 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
314 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
315 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
316 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
317 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
319 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
322 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
323 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
324 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
325 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
326 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
327 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
330 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
332 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
334 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
335 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
336 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
337 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
339 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
340 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
341 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
342 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
344 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
345 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
346 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
347 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
349 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
350 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
351 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
352 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
353 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
354 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
356 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
357 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
358 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
359 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
360 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
362 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
363 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
364 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
365 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
367 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
368 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
369 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
370 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
372 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
373 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
374 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
375 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
377 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
378 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
379 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
380 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
382 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
383 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
384 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
385 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
387 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
388 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
389 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
390 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
391 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
392 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
393 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
394 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
395 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
396 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
397 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
398 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
399 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
400 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
401 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
403 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
404 Source field descriptions.
405 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
406 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
407 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
408 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
409 description says otherwise.
411 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
413 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
416 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
417 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
418 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
419 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
420 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
421 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
423 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
424 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
425 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
426 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
428 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
429 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
430 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
431 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
433 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
434 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
435 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
436 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
438 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
439 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
440 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
441 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
445 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
446 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
447 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
448 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
449 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
451 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
452 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
453 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
454 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
456 * Add myself to Uploaders.
459 * Add myself to Uploaders.
460 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
462 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
463 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
464 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
466 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
468 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
470 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
471 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
472 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
473 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
475 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
476 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
477 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
478 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
480 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
481 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
482 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
483 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
485 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
486 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
487 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
488 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
490 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
491 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
492 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
493 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
495 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
496 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
497 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
498 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
500 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
501 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
502 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
503 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
505 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
506 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
507 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
508 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
510 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
511 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
512 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
513 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
515 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
516 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
517 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
518 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
520 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
521 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
522 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
523 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
524 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
526 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
527 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
528 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
529 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
530 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
531 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
532 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
533 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
534 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
535 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
536 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
537 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
538 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
539 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
540 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
541 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
542 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
543 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
544 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
545 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
546 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
547 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
548 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
549 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
550 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
551 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
552 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
553 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
554 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
555 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
557 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
558 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
559 links was completed long ago.
560 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
562 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
564 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
566 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
567 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
569 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
571 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
573 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
574 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
575 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
576 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
577 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
578 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
579 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
580 Millan (Closes: #209008).
581 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
582 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
584 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
586 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
588 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
589 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
590 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
591 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
592 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
593 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
594 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
596 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
597 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
598 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
599 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
601 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
602 Küster (Closes: #403391).
603 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
604 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
605 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
606 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
607 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
608 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
609 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
610 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
611 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
612 Closes: #186700, #458910
613 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
614 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
615 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
617 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
618 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
619 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
620 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
621 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
622 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
623 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
624 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
626 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
627 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
629 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
630 * Add an md5sums control file.
631 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
632 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
633 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
634 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
635 currently part of policy.
636 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
637 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
638 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
641 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
643 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
645 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
646 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
647 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
648 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
649 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
650 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
651 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
652 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
653 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
654 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
655 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
656 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
657 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
658 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
659 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
660 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
662 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
664 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
665 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
666 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
668 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
669 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
670 list?" (Closes: #412634).
671 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
672 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
673 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
674 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
675 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
676 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
677 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
678 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
679 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
680 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
681 debconf specification.
682 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
683 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
685 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
687 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
689 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
690 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
691 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
692 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
693 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
695 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
697 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
698 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
699 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
700 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
701 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
703 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
704 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
705 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
706 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
707 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
708 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
709 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
710 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
711 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
712 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
713 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
714 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
715 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
716 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
717 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
718 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
720 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
722 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
723 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
724 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
725 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
726 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
727 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
728 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
729 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
731 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
733 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
735 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
736 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
737 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
738 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
739 Polo (Closes: #372497).
740 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
741 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
743 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
744 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
745 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
746 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
747 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
748 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
749 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
750 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
751 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
752 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
754 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
755 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
756 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
757 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
758 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
759 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
761 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
763 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
765 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
766 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
767 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
768 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
770 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
771 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
773 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
775 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
777 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
778 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
779 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
780 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
781 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
782 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
783 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
784 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
785 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
786 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
788 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
789 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
790 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
791 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
792 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
793 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
794 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
795 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
796 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
797 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
798 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
801 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
803 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
805 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
806 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
807 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
808 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
809 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
810 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
811 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
812 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
813 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
814 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
815 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
816 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
817 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
818 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
819 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
820 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
821 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
822 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
823 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
824 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
825 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
826 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
827 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
828 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
829 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
830 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
831 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
832 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
834 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
835 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
836 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
837 Hess (Closes: #362247).
838 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
839 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
840 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
841 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
842 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
843 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
844 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
845 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
846 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
847 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
848 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
849 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
851 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
852 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
854 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
855 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
856 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
857 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
858 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
859 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
860 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
861 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
862 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
863 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
864 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
866 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
868 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
871 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
872 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
873 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
874 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
875 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
876 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
877 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
878 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
879 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
880 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
881 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
882 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
883 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
885 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
886 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
887 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
888 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
889 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
890 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
891 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
892 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
893 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
894 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
895 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
896 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
897 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
898 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
899 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
900 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
901 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
902 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
903 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
906 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
908 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
910 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
911 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
912 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
913 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
915 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
916 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
917 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
918 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
920 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
922 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
925 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
926 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
927 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
928 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
929 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
930 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
931 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
932 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
933 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
934 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
936 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
937 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
938 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
940 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
941 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
942 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
943 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
944 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
945 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
946 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
948 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
949 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
950 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
951 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
953 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
954 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
955 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
956 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
957 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
958 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
959 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
960 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
962 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
963 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
964 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
965 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
966 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
967 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
968 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
969 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
970 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
971 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
972 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
973 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
974 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
975 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
976 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
977 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
978 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
980 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
982 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
985 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
986 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
987 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
988 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
989 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
990 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
991 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
992 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
993 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
995 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
996 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
997 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
998 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
999 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1000 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1001 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1002 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1003 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1004 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1005 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1006 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1007 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1008 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1009 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1010 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1011 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1013 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1014 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1015 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1018 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1019 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1020 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1022 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1023 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1024 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1025 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1026 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1027 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1029 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1030 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1032 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1033 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1034 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1035 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1036 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1037 Closes: #185943, #237049
1039 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1041 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1047 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1048 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1049 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1050 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1051 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1052 running. closes: Bug#187250
1053 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1054 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1055 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1056 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1057 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1058 user closes: Bug#176506
1060 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1062 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1066 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1067 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1068 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1069 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1070 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1071 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1072 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1073 deb-building toolchain.
1074 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1075 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1076 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1077 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1078 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1079 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1080 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1081 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1082 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1083 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1084 sections about changelog files.
1086 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1087 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1088 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1089 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1090 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1091 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1093 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1094 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1095 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1096 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1097 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1098 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1099 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1100 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1101 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1102 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1103 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1104 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1105 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1106 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1107 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1108 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1109 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1110 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1111 for the restructuring
1113 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1115 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1120 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1121 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1122 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1123 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1124 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1125 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1127 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1128 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1129 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1130 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1131 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1132 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1133 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1135 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1136 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1137 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1138 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1140 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1142 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1146 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1147 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1148 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1149 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1150 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1152 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1153 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1154 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1155 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1157 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1158 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1159 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1160 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1161 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1162 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1163 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1164 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1165 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1166 offtopic stuff, too.
1167 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1168 script should start it, closes: #60979
1169 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1170 "should", closes: #170019
1171 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1172 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1173 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1174 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1175 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1176 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1177 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1178 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1181 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1183 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1187 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1188 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1189 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1190 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1191 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1192 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1193 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1194 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1196 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1197 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1198 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1199 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1200 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1201 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1202 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1203 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1204 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1206 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1207 file, closes: Bug#65764
1209 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1211 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1214 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1215 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1216 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1217 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1218 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1219 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1220 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1221 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1222 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1223 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1224 details. closes: Bug#133030
1225 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1226 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1227 parts of Bug#161455.
1229 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1231 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1233 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1234 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1235 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1236 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1237 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1238 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1239 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1240 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1241 not. closes: Bug#139820
1242 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1243 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1244 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1245 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1246 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1247 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1248 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1249 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1250 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1251 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1253 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1255 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1256 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1257 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1258 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1259 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1260 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1261 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1262 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1263 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1264 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1265 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1266 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1267 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1268 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1269 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1270 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1271 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1272 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1273 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1274 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1276 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1277 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1278 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1279 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1280 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1281 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1282 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1284 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1285 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1286 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1287 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1288 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1289 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1290 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1291 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1292 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1294 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1296 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1299 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1300 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1301 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1302 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1303 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1304 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1305 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1306 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1307 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1308 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1309 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1310 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1311 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1312 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1313 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1314 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1315 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1316 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1317 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1318 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1319 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1320 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1322 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1324 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1327 medium, high, emergency.
1328 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1329 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1330 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1331 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1332 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1335 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1336 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1337 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1339 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1340 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1341 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1342 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1343 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1344 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1345 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1348 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1350 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1353 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1354 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1355 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1357 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1358 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1359 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1360 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1361 debian/rules to do this
1362 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1363 patches are incorporated upstream
1364 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1365 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1366 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1367 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1368 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1369 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1371 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1372 system closes: Bug#91249
1373 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1374 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1375 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1376 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1377 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1378 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1379 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1380 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1381 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1382 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1383 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1384 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1385 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1387 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1389 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1391 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1392 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1393 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1394 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1396 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1397 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1398 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1400 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1403 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1405 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1408 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1409 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1410 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1411 package for the time being
1412 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1413 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1414 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1415 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1416 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1417 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1418 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1419 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1420 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1421 Build-Depends arch syntax
1422 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1424 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1425 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1427 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1428 from policy maintenance duties.
1429 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1430 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1432 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1434 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1438 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1440 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1443 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1444 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1445 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1446 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1447 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1448 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1449 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1450 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1451 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1452 minor version number for this
1453 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1454 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1455 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1456 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1457 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1458 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1459 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1460 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1461 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1463 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1465 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1468 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1469 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1470 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1471 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1473 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1475 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1476 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1477 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1478 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1479 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1480 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1481 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1482 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1483 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1484 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1485 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1486 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1487 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1488 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1489 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1490 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1493 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1495 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1498 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1500 * Document the Enhances relationship
1501 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1502 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1503 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1504 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1505 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1506 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1508 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1510 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1511 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1512 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1513 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1515 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1516 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1517 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1518 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1519 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1521 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1523 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1525 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1526 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1527 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1529 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1530 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1531 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1532 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1533 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1534 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1535 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1536 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1537 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1539 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1541 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1543 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1546 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1547 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1548 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1549 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1550 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1551 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1552 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1553 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1554 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1555 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1556 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1557 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1558 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1559 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1560 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1561 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1562 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1563 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1564 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1565 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1566 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1568 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1569 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1571 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1573 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1576 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1577 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1578 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1579 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1580 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1581 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1582 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1583 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1584 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1585 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1586 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1587 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1588 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1589 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1590 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1591 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1592 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1593 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1594 list closes: Bug#53756
1595 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1596 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1597 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1598 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1599 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1600 policy closes: Bug#53760
1601 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1602 policy closes: Bug#53761
1603 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1604 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1605 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1606 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1607 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1608 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1609 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1610 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1611 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1612 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1613 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1615 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1616 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1617 to install with older fileutils.
1618 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1619 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1620 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1621 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1623 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1624 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1626 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1628 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1631 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1633 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1635 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1638 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1640 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1643 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1645 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1646 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1648 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1650 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1652 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1655 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1657 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1659 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1662 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1663 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1664 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1665 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1666 directoried (closes: #41547)
1667 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1668 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1669 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1670 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1671 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1672 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1673 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1674 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1675 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1676 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1677 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1679 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1680 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1681 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1682 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1683 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1684 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1685 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1687 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1688 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1689 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1690 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1692 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1694 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1696 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1697 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1699 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1701 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1704 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1706 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1708 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1710 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1711 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1713 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1714 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1715 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1716 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1717 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1718 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1719 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1720 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1721 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1722 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1723 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1724 this closes: Bug#38612
1725 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1726 before. closes: Bug#40864
1728 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1730 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1733 officially uploaded.
1734 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1736 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1737 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1738 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1740 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1741 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1742 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1743 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1744 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1745 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1747 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1748 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1749 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1751 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1753 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1754 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1755 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1756 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1757 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1759 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1761 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1763 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1764 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1765 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1766 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1767 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1768 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1769 there). closes: Bug#34233
1770 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1771 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1772 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1773 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1774 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1776 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1778 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1781 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1782 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1783 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1786 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1787 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1788 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1789 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1790 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1793 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1794 number. closes: BUG#25911
1796 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1797 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1798 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1799 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1800 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1801 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1803 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1804 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1805 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1808 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1809 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1810 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1812 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1813 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1814 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1815 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1817 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1818 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1819 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1821 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1823 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1824 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1825 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1826 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1827 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1828 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1829 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1830 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1833 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1835 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1836 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1839 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1841 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1845 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1847 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1850 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1851 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1852 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1853 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1854 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1855 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1856 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1858 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1859 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1861 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1863 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1865 * non-maintainer release
1866 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1867 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1869 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1870 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1871 * no content changes
1872 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1874 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1876 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1880 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1882 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1884 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1886 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1887 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1888 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1890 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1891 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1893 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1894 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1895 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1896 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1898 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1899 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1900 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1901 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1902 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1903 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1904 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1906 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1907 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1908 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1911 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1912 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1913 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1915 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1916 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1917 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1919 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1920 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1922 * New version numbering scheme:
1924 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1925 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1926 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1929 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1930 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1931 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1932 differ between the manuals.
1934 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1935 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1936 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1937 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1939 * Packaging changes:
1941 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1942 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1944 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1946 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1948 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1952 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1953 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1954 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1956 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1957 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1960 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1961 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1962 file extension as the referenced file
1964 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1965 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1967 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1968 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1969 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1970 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1973 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1974 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1975 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1977 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1978 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1979 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1980 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1983 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1984 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
1987 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
1988 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
1989 reasonable default configuration
1991 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
1992 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
1993 by all news servers and clients
1995 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
1996 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
1997 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
1998 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
1999 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2001 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2002 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2005 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2007 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2008 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2010 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2013 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2014 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2016 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2017 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2019 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2021 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2023 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2025 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2026 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2027 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2028 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2030 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2032 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2033 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2034 * Don't use debstd anymore
2036 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2038 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2040 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2041 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2042 contrib/non-free policy
2043 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2044 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2045 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2046 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2047 - new section about `Daemons'
2048 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2049 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2050 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2051 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2052 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2053 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2054 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2055 * SGML source code included in package
2056 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2058 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2060 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2062 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2063 - completely reworked structure
2064 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2065 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2066 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2067 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2068 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2069 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2070 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2071 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2072 - mention "orphaned packages"
2073 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2074 distributions' policy
2075 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2076 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2077 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2078 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2079 - added section about arch spec strings
2080 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2081 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2082 - added section about "menus"
2083 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2084 the new documentation policy soon
2085 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2086 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2088 - added section about editors and pagers
2089 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2090 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2091 - added section about device files
2092 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2093 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2094 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2096 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2097 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2098 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2099 - Added new section about obsolete names
2100 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2101 * Fixed package's description
2103 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2105 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2107 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2109 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2111 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2113 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2114 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2115 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2116 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2118 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2120 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2122 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2123 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2124 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2126 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2127 and upload it "byhand" too.
2129 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2131 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2134 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2135 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2136 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2137 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2138 functionality must not have the same name.
2139 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2140 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2141 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2142 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2143 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2144 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2145 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2147 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2148 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2149 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2150 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2151 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2152 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2153 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2154 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2157 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2159 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2161 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2163 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2164 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2165 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2166 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2167 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2170 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2172 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2174 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2176 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2177 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2178 description of deb file format.
2179 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2180 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2182 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2184 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2185 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2187 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2189 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2191 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2192 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2193 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2194 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2195 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2196 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2197 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2198 packages in section on Procedure
2199 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2200 a package maintainer
2201 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2202 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2203 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2205 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2206 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2207 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2208 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2209 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2210 on various shlib files
2211 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2212 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2213 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2215 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2217 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2219 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2220 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2221 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2223 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2224 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2225 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2226 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2227 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2229 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2231 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2233 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2235 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2237 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2238 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2239 compatibility go in contrib.
2241 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2242 instructions in policy manual.
2243 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2246 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2248 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2250 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2251 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2252 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2253 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2255 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2256 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2259 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2261 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2263 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2264 * More detail about changelog format names.
2266 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2267 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2271 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2273 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2275 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2277 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2279 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2281 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2283 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2285 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2286 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2287 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2289 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2291 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2293 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2295 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2297 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2301 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100