1 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
4 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
5 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
7 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
9 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
10 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
11 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
12 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
14 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
15 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
16 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
17 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
19 * 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 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
88 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
89 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
90 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
91 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
92 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
93 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
94 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
95 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
96 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
98 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
99 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
101 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:34:54 -0700
103 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
106 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
109 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
112 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
113 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
114 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
115 and distribution license' (three times).
116 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
117 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
118 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
119 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
120 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
122 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
124 Proposed by Santiago Vila
125 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
126 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
127 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
128 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
132 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
133 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
134 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
135 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
137 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
138 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
139 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
140 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
141 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
142 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
144 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
145 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
146 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
147 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
149 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
150 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
151 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
152 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
153 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
155 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
156 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
157 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
158 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
159 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
161 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
162 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
163 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
164 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
165 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
167 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
168 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
169 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
170 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
172 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
173 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
174 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
175 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
176 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
178 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
179 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
180 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
181 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
183 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
184 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
185 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
186 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
188 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
189 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
190 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
191 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
192 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
194 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
195 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
196 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
197 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
199 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
200 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
201 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
202 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
203 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
205 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
206 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
207 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
208 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
210 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
211 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
212 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
213 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
214 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
215 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
216 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
217 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
218 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
219 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
220 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
221 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
222 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
223 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
224 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
225 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
226 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
227 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
228 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
229 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
230 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
231 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
232 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
233 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
234 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
235 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
236 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
237 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
238 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
239 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
240 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
241 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
243 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
245 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
247 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
250 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
251 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
253 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
254 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
258 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
261 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
262 Wording: Steve Langasek.
263 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
264 Seconded: Julien Cristau
265 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
268 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
269 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
270 Seconded: Russ Allbery
271 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
274 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
275 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
276 Seconded: Russ Allbery
278 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
279 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
280 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
281 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
282 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
283 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
284 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
285 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
286 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
288 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
289 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
290 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
291 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
292 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
293 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
294 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
295 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
296 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
297 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
298 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
299 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
300 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
301 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
302 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
303 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
305 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
306 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
307 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
308 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
309 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
311 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
314 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
315 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
316 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
317 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
318 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
319 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
322 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
324 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
326 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
327 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
328 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
329 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
331 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
332 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
333 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
334 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
336 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
337 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
338 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
339 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
341 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
342 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
343 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
344 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
345 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
346 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
348 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
349 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
350 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
351 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
352 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
354 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
355 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
356 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
357 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
359 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
360 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
361 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
362 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
364 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
365 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
366 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
367 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
369 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
370 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
371 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
372 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
374 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
375 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
376 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
377 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
379 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
380 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
381 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
382 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
383 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
384 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
385 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
386 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
387 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
388 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
389 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
390 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
391 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
392 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
393 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
395 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
396 Source field descriptions.
397 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
398 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
399 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
400 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
401 description says otherwise.
403 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
405 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
408 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
409 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
410 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
411 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
412 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
413 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
415 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
416 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
417 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
418 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
420 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
421 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
422 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
423 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
425 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
426 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
427 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
428 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
430 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
431 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
432 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
433 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
437 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
438 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
439 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
440 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
441 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
443 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
444 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
445 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
446 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
448 * Add myself to Uploaders.
451 * Add myself to Uploaders.
452 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
454 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
455 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
456 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
458 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
460 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
462 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
463 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
464 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
465 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
467 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
468 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
469 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
470 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
472 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
473 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
474 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
475 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
477 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
478 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
479 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
480 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
482 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
483 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
484 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
485 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
487 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
488 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
489 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
490 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
492 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
493 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
494 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
495 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
497 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
498 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
499 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
500 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
502 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
503 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
504 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
505 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
507 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
508 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
509 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
510 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
512 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
513 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
514 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
515 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
516 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
518 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
519 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
520 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
521 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
522 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
523 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
524 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
525 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
526 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
527 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
528 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
529 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
530 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
531 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
532 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
533 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
534 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
535 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
536 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
537 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
538 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
539 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
540 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
541 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
542 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
543 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
544 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
545 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
546 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
547 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
549 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
550 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
551 links was completed long ago.
552 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
554 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
556 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
558 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
559 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
561 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
563 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
565 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
566 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
567 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
568 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
569 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
570 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
571 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
572 Millan (Closes: #209008).
573 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
574 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
576 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
578 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
580 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
581 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
582 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
583 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
584 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
585 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
586 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
588 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
589 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
590 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
591 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
593 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
594 Küster (Closes: #403391).
595 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
596 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
597 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
598 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
599 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
600 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
601 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
602 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
603 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
604 Closes: #186700, #458910
605 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
606 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
607 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
609 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
610 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
611 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
612 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
613 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
614 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
615 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
616 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
618 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
619 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
621 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
622 * Add an md5sums control file.
623 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
624 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
625 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
626 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
627 currently part of policy.
628 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
629 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
630 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
633 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
635 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
637 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
638 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
639 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
640 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
641 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
642 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
643 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
644 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
645 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
646 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
647 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
648 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
649 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
650 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
651 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
652 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
654 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
656 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
657 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
658 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
660 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
661 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
662 list?" (Closes: #412634).
663 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
664 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
665 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
666 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
667 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
668 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
669 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
670 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
671 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
672 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
673 debconf specification.
674 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
675 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
677 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
679 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
681 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
682 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
683 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
684 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
685 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
687 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
689 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
690 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
691 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
692 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
693 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
695 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
696 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
697 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
698 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
699 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
700 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
701 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
702 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
703 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
704 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
705 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
706 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
707 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
708 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
709 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
710 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
712 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
714 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
715 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
716 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
717 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
718 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
719 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
720 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
721 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
723 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
725 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
727 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
728 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
729 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
730 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
731 Polo (Closes: #372497).
732 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
733 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
735 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
736 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
737 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
738 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
739 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
740 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
741 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
742 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
743 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
744 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
746 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
747 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
748 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
749 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
750 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
751 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
753 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
755 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
757 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
758 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
759 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
760 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
762 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
763 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
765 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
767 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
769 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
770 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
771 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
772 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
773 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
774 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
775 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
776 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
777 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
778 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
780 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
781 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
782 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
783 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
784 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
785 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
786 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
787 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
788 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
789 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
790 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
793 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
795 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
797 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
798 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
799 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
800 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
801 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
802 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
803 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
804 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
805 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
806 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
807 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
808 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
809 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
810 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
811 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
812 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
813 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
814 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
815 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
816 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
817 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
818 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
819 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
820 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
821 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
822 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
823 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
824 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
826 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
827 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
828 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
829 Hess (Closes: #362247).
830 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
831 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
832 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
833 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
834 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
835 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
836 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
837 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
838 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
839 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
840 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
841 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
843 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
844 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
846 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
847 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
848 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
849 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
850 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
851 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
852 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
853 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
854 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
855 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
856 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
858 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
860 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
863 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
864 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
865 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
866 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
867 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
868 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
869 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
870 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
871 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
872 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
873 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
874 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
875 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
877 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
878 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
879 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
880 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
881 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
882 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
883 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
884 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
885 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
886 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
887 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
888 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
889 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
890 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
891 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
892 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
893 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
894 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
895 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
898 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
900 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
902 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
903 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
904 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
905 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
907 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
908 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
909 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
910 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
912 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
914 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
917 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
918 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
919 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
920 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
921 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
922 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
923 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
924 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
925 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
926 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
928 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
929 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
930 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
932 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
933 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
934 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
935 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
936 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
937 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
938 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
940 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
941 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
942 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
943 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
945 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
946 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
947 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
948 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
949 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
950 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
951 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
952 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
954 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
955 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
956 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
957 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
958 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
959 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
960 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
961 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
962 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
963 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
964 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
965 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
966 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
967 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
968 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
969 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
970 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
972 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
974 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
977 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
978 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
979 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
980 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
981 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
982 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
983 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
984 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
985 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
987 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
988 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
989 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
990 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
991 this section. closes: Bug#248618
992 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
993 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
994 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
995 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
996 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
997 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
998 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
999 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1000 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1001 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1002 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1003 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1005 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1006 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1007 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1010 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1011 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1012 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1014 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1015 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1016 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1017 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1018 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1019 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1021 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1022 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1024 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1025 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1026 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1027 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1028 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1029 Closes: #185943, #237049
1031 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1033 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1039 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1040 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1041 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1042 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1043 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1044 running. closes: Bug#187250
1045 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1046 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1047 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1048 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1049 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1050 user closes: Bug#176506
1052 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1054 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1058 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1059 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1060 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1061 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1062 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1063 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1064 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1065 deb-building toolchain.
1066 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1067 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1068 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1069 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1070 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1071 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1072 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1073 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1074 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1075 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1076 sections about changelog files.
1078 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1079 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1080 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1081 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1082 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1083 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1085 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1086 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1087 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1088 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1089 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1090 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1091 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1092 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1093 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1094 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1095 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1096 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1097 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1098 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1099 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1100 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1101 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1102 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1103 for the restructuring
1105 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1107 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1112 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1113 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1114 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1115 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1116 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1117 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1119 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1120 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1121 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1122 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1123 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1124 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1125 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1127 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1128 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1129 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1130 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1132 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1134 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1138 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1139 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1140 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1141 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1142 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1144 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1145 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1146 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1147 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1149 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1150 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1151 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1152 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1153 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1154 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1155 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1156 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1157 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1158 offtopic stuff, too.
1159 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1160 script should start it, closes: #60979
1161 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1162 "should", closes: #170019
1163 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1164 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1165 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1166 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1167 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1168 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1169 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1170 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1173 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1175 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1178 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1179 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1180 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1181 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1182 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1183 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1184 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1185 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1186 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1188 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1189 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1190 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1191 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1192 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1193 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1194 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1195 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1196 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1198 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1199 file, closes: Bug#65764
1201 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1203 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1206 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1207 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1208 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1209 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1210 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1211 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1212 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1213 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1214 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1215 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1216 details. closes: Bug#133030
1217 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1218 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1219 parts of Bug#161455.
1221 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1223 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1225 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1226 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1227 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1228 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1229 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1230 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1231 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1232 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1233 not. closes: Bug#139820
1234 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1235 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1236 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1237 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1238 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1239 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1240 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1241 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1242 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1243 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1245 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1247 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1248 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1249 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1250 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1251 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1252 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1253 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1254 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1255 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1256 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1257 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1258 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1259 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1260 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1261 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1262 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1263 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1264 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1265 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1266 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1268 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1269 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1270 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1271 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1272 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1273 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1274 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1276 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1277 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1278 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1279 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1280 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1281 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1282 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1283 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1284 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1286 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1288 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1291 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1292 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1293 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1294 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1295 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1296 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1297 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1298 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1299 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1300 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1301 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1302 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1303 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1304 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1305 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1306 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1307 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1308 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1309 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1310 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1311 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1312 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1314 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1316 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1319 medium, high, emergency.
1320 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1321 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1322 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1323 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1324 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1327 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1328 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1329 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1331 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1332 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1333 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1334 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1335 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1336 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1337 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1340 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1342 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1345 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1346 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1347 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1349 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1350 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1351 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1352 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1353 debian/rules to do this
1354 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1355 patches are incorporated upstream
1356 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1357 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1358 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1359 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1360 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1361 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1363 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1364 system closes: Bug#91249
1365 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1366 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1367 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1368 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1369 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1370 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1371 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1372 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1373 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1374 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1375 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1376 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1377 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1379 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1381 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1384 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1385 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1386 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1388 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1389 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1390 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1392 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1395 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1397 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1400 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1401 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1402 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1403 package for the time being
1404 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1405 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1406 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1407 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1408 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1409 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1410 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1411 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1412 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1413 Build-Depends arch syntax
1414 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1416 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1417 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1419 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1420 from policy maintenance duties.
1421 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1422 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1424 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1426 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1430 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1432 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1435 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1436 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1437 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1438 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1439 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1440 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1441 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1442 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1443 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1444 minor version number for this
1445 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1446 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1447 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1448 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1449 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1450 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1451 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1452 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1453 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1455 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1457 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1460 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1461 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1462 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1463 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1465 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1467 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1468 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1469 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1470 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1471 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1472 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1473 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1474 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1475 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1476 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1477 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1478 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1479 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1480 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1481 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1482 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1485 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1487 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1490 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1492 * Document the Enhances relationship
1493 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1494 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1495 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1496 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1497 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1498 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1500 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1502 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1503 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1504 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1505 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1507 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1508 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1509 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1510 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1511 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1513 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1515 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1518 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1519 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1521 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1522 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1523 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1524 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1525 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1526 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1527 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1528 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1529 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1531 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1533 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1535 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1538 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1539 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1540 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1541 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1542 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1543 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1544 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1545 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1546 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1547 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1548 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1549 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1550 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1551 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1552 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1553 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1554 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1555 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1556 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1557 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1558 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1560 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1561 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1563 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1565 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1568 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1569 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1570 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1571 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1572 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1573 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1574 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1575 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1576 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1577 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1578 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1579 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1580 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1581 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1582 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1583 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1584 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1585 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1586 list closes: Bug#53756
1587 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1588 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1589 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1590 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1591 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1592 policy closes: Bug#53760
1593 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1594 policy closes: Bug#53761
1595 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1596 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1597 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1598 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1599 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1600 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1601 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1602 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1603 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1604 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1605 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1607 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1608 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1609 to install with older fileutils.
1610 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1611 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1612 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1613 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1615 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1616 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1618 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1620 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1623 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1625 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1627 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1629 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1630 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1632 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1635 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1638 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1640 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1642 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1644 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1647 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1649 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1651 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1653 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1654 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1655 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1656 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1657 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1658 directoried (closes: #41547)
1659 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1660 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1661 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1662 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1663 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1664 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1665 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1666 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1667 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1668 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1669 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1671 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1672 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1673 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1674 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1675 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1676 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1677 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1679 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1680 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1681 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1682 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1684 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1686 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1688 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1689 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1691 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1693 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1696 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1698 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1700 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1703 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1705 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1706 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1707 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1708 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1709 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1710 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1711 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1712 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1713 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1714 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1715 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1716 this closes: Bug#38612
1717 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1718 before. closes: Bug#40864
1720 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1722 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1725 officially uploaded.
1726 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1728 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1729 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1730 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1732 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1733 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1734 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1735 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1736 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1737 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1739 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1740 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1741 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1743 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1745 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1746 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1747 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1748 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1749 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1751 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1753 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1755 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1756 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1757 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1758 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1759 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1760 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1761 there). closes: Bug#34233
1762 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1763 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1764 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1765 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1766 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1768 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1770 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1773 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1774 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1775 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1778 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1779 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1780 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1781 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1782 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1785 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1786 number. closes: BUG#25911
1788 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1789 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1790 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1791 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1792 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1793 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1795 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1796 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1797 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1800 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1801 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1802 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1804 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1805 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1806 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1807 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1809 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1810 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1811 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1813 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1815 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1816 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1817 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1818 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1819 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1820 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1821 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1822 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1825 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1827 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1828 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1831 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1833 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1835 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1837 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1839 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1841 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1842 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1843 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1844 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1845 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1846 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1847 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1848 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1850 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1851 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1853 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1855 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1857 * non-maintainer release
1858 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1859 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1861 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1862 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1863 * no content changes
1864 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1866 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1868 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1872 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1874 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1876 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1878 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1879 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1880 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1882 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1883 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1885 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1886 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1887 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1888 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1890 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1891 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1892 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1893 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1894 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1895 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1896 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1898 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1899 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1900 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1903 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1904 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1905 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1907 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1908 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1909 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1911 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1912 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1914 * New version numbering scheme:
1916 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1917 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1918 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1921 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1922 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1923 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1924 differ between the manuals.
1926 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1927 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1928 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1929 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1931 * Packaging changes:
1933 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1934 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1936 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1938 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1940 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1944 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1945 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1946 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1948 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1949 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1952 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1953 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1954 file extension as the referenced file
1956 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1957 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1959 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1960 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1961 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1962 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1965 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1966 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1967 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1969 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1970 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1971 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1972 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1975 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1976 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
1979 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
1980 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
1981 reasonable default configuration
1983 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
1984 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
1985 by all news servers and clients
1987 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
1988 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
1989 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
1990 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
1991 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
1993 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1994 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
1997 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
1999 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2000 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2002 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2005 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2006 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2008 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2009 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2011 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2013 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2015 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2018 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2019 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2020 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2022 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2024 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2025 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2026 * Don't use debstd anymore
2028 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2030 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2032 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2033 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2034 contrib/non-free policy
2035 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2036 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2037 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2038 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2039 - new section about `Daemons'
2040 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2041 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2042 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2043 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2044 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2045 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2046 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2047 * SGML source code included in package
2048 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2050 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2052 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2055 - completely reworked structure
2056 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2057 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2058 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2059 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2060 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2061 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2062 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2063 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2064 - mention "orphaned packages"
2065 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2066 distributions' policy
2067 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2068 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2069 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2070 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2071 - added section about arch spec strings
2072 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2073 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2074 - added section about "menus"
2075 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2076 the new documentation policy soon
2077 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2078 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2080 - added section about editors and pagers
2081 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2082 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2083 - added section about device files
2084 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2085 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2086 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2088 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2089 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2090 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2091 - Added new section about obsolete names
2092 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2093 * Fixed package's description
2095 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2097 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2099 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2101 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2103 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2105 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2106 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2107 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2108 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2110 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2112 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2114 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2115 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2116 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2118 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2119 and upload it "byhand" too.
2121 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2123 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2127 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2128 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2129 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2130 functionality must not have the same name.
2131 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2132 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2133 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2134 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2135 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2136 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2137 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2139 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2140 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2141 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2142 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2143 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2144 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2145 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2146 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2149 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2151 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2153 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2155 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2156 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2157 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2158 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2159 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2162 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2164 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2166 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2168 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2169 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2170 description of deb file format.
2171 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2172 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2174 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2176 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2177 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2179 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2181 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2183 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2184 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2185 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2186 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2187 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2188 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2189 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2190 packages in section on Procedure
2191 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2192 a package maintainer
2193 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2194 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2195 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2197 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2198 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2199 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2200 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2201 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2202 on various shlib files
2203 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2204 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2205 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2207 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2209 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2211 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2212 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2213 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2215 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2216 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2217 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2218 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2219 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2221 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2223 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2225 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2227 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2229 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2230 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2231 compatibility go in contrib.
2233 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2234 instructions in policy manual.
2235 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2238 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2240 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2242 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2243 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2244 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2245 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2247 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2248 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2251 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2253 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2255 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2256 * More detail about changelog format names.
2258 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2259 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2263 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2265 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2267 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2269 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2271 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2273 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2275 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2277 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2278 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2279 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2281 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2283 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2285 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2287 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2289 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2293 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100