1 debian-policy (3.5.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual closes: Bug#86507
4 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
5 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
6 package for the time being
10 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
12 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
14 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
16 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
18 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
19 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
20 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
21 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
22 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
23 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
24 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
25 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
26 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
27 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
28 minor version number for this
29 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
30 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
31 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
32 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
33 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
34 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
35 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
36 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
37 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
39 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
41 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
43 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
44 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
45 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
46 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
47 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
49 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
51 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
52 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
53 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
54 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
55 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
56 * document the fact that x font utilities have moved to the package
57 xutils, closes: Bug#82966
58 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
59 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
60 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
61 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
62 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
63 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
64 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
65 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
66 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
69 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
71 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
73 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
74 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
76 * Document the Enhances relationship
77 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
78 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
79 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
80 policy. closes: Bug#53496
81 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
82 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
84 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
86 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
87 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
88 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
89 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
91 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
92 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
93 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
94 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
95 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
97 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
99 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
101 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
102 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
103 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
105 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
106 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
107 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
108 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
109 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
110 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
111 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
112 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
113 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
115 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
117 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
119 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
121 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
122 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
123 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
124 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
125 policy. closes: Bug#64437
126 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
127 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
128 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
129 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
130 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
131 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
132 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
133 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
134 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
135 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
136 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
137 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
138 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
139 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
140 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
141 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
142 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
144 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
145 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
147 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
149 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
151 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
152 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
153 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
154 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
155 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
156 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
157 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
158 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
159 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
160 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
161 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
162 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
163 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
164 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
165 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
166 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
167 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
168 alternative closes: Bug#53755
169 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
170 list closes: Bug#53756
171 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
172 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
173 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
174 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
175 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
176 policy closes: Bug#53760
177 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
178 policy closes: Bug#53761
179 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
180 that use X closes: Bug#53762
181 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
182 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
183 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
184 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
185 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
186 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
187 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
188 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
189 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
191 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
192 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
193 to install with older fileutils.
194 * Installed FHS version 2.1
195 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
196 * Added FHS details to copyright file
197 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
199 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
200 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
202 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
204 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
206 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
207 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
209 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
211 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
213 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
214 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
216 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
219 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
221 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
222 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
224 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
226 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
228 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
230 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
231 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
233 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
235 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
237 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
238 #45561, #42447, #48570)
239 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
240 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
241 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
242 directoried (closes: #41547)
243 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
244 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
245 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
246 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
247 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
248 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
249 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
250 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
251 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
252 package criteria (closes: #45318)
253 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
255 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
256 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
257 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
258 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
259 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
260 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
261 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
263 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
264 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
265 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
266 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
268 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
270 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
272 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
273 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
275 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
277 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
279 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
280 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
282 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
284 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
286 * A few typos and omissions corrected
287 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
289 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
290 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
291 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
292 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
293 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
294 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
295 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
296 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
297 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
298 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
299 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
300 this closes: Bug#38612
301 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
302 before. closes: Bug#40864
304 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
306 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
308 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
310 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
312 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
313 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
314 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
316 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
317 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
318 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
319 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
320 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
321 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
323 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
324 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
325 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
327 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
329 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
330 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
331 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
332 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
333 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
335 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
337 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
339 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
340 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
341 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
342 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
343 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
344 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
345 there). closes: Bug#34233
346 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
347 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
348 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
349 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
350 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
352 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
354 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
356 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
357 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
358 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
359 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
362 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
363 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
364 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
365 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
366 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
369 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
370 number. closes: BUG#25911
372 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
373 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
374 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
375 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
376 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
377 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
379 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
380 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
381 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
384 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
385 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
386 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
388 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
389 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
390 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
391 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
393 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
394 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
395 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
397 * Make the package optional, not extra.
399 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
400 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
401 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
402 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
403 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
404 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
405 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
406 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
409 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
411 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
412 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
415 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
417 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
419 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
421 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
423 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
425 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
426 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
427 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
428 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
429 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
430 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
431 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
432 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
434 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
435 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
437 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
439 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
441 * non-maintainer release
442 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
443 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
445 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
446 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
448 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
450 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
452 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
456 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
458 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
460 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
462 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
463 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
464 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
466 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
467 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
469 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
470 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
471 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
472 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
474 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
475 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
476 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
477 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
478 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
479 and restart options and to comply with the console message
480 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
482 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
483 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
484 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
487 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
488 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
489 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
491 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
492 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
493 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
495 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
496 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
498 * New version numbering scheme:
500 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
501 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
502 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
505 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
506 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
507 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
508 differ between the manuals.
510 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
511 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
512 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
513 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
517 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
518 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
520 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
522 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
524 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
526 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
528 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
529 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
530 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
532 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
533 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
536 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
537 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
538 file extension as the referenced file
540 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
541 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
543 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
544 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
545 start, stop, restart, force-reload
546 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
549 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
550 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
551 be installed into /etc/cron.d
553 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
554 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
555 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
556 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
559 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
560 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
563 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
564 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
565 reasonable default configuration
567 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
568 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
569 by all news servers and clients
571 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
572 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
573 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
574 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
575 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
577 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
578 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
581 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
583 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
584 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
586 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
589 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
590 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
592 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
593 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
595 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
597 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
599 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
601 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
602 - X library package is now called xlib6g
603 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
604 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
606 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
608 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
609 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
610 * Don't use debstd anymore
612 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
614 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
616 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
617 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
618 contrib/non-free policy
619 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
620 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
621 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
622 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
623 - new section about `Daemons'
624 - updated section about `Configuration files'
625 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
626 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
627 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
628 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
629 * Paper about libc6 migration:
630 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
631 * SGML source code included in package
632 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
634 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
636 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
638 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
639 - completely reworked structure
640 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
641 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
642 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
643 - removed all those ugly footnotes
644 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
645 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
646 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
647 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
648 - mention "orphaned packages"
649 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
650 distributions' policy
651 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
652 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
653 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
654 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
655 - added section about arch spec strings
656 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
657 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
658 - added section about "menus"
659 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
660 the new documentation policy soon
661 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
662 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
664 - added section about editors and pagers
665 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
666 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
667 - added section about device files
668 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
669 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
670 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
672 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
673 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
674 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
675 - Added new section about obsolete names
676 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
677 * Fixed package's description
679 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
681 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
683 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
685 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
687 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
689 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
690 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
691 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
692 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
694 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
696 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
698 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
699 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
700 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
702 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
703 and upload it "byhand" too.
705 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
707 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
710 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
711 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
712 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
713 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
714 functionality must not have the same name.
715 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
716 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
717 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
718 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
719 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
720 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
721 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
723 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
724 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
725 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
726 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
727 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
728 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
729 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
730 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
733 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
735 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
737 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
739 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
740 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
741 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
742 a package into. (Guy Maor)
743 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
746 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
748 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
750 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
752 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
753 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
754 description of deb file format.
755 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
756 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
758 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
760 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
761 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
763 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
765 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
767 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
768 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
769 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
770 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
771 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
772 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
773 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
774 packages in section on Procedure
775 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
777 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
778 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
779 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
781 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
782 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
783 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
784 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
785 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
786 on various shlib files
787 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
788 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
789 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
791 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
793 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
795 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
796 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
797 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
799 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
800 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
801 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
802 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
803 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
805 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
807 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
809 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
811 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
813 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
814 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
815 compatibility go in contrib.
817 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
818 instructions in policy manual.
819 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
822 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
824 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
826 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
827 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
828 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
829 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
831 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
832 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
835 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
837 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
839 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
840 * More detail about changelog format names.
842 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
843 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
847 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
849 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
851 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
853 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
855 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
857 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
859 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
861 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
862 * More verbosity about netiquette.
863 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
865 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
867 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
869 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
871 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
873 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
877 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
880 mode: debian-changelog