1 debian-policy (3.8.2.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
4 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
5 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
6 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
8 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:59:48 -0700
10 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
13 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
14 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
15 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
16 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
17 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
18 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
20 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
21 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
22 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
23 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
25 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
26 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
27 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
28 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
30 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
31 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
32 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
33 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
35 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
36 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
37 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
38 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
42 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
43 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
44 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
45 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
46 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
48 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
49 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
50 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
51 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
53 * Add myself to Uploaders.
56 * Add myself to Uploaders.
57 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
59 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
60 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
61 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
63 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
65 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
67 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
68 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
69 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
70 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
72 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
73 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
74 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
75 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
77 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
78 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
79 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
80 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
82 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
83 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
84 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
85 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
87 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
88 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
89 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
90 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
92 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
93 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
94 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
95 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
97 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
98 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
99 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
100 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
102 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
103 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
104 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
105 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
107 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
108 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
109 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
110 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
112 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
113 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
114 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
115 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
117 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
118 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
119 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
120 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
121 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
123 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
124 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
125 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
126 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
127 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
128 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
129 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
130 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
131 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
132 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
133 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
134 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
135 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
136 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
137 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
138 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
139 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
140 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
141 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
142 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
143 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
144 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
145 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
146 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
147 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
148 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
149 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
150 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
151 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
152 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
154 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
155 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
156 links was completed long ago.
157 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
159 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
161 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
163 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
164 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
166 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
168 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
170 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
171 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
172 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
173 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
174 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
175 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
176 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
177 Millan (Closes: #209008).
178 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
179 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
181 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
183 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
185 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
186 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
187 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
188 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
189 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
190 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
191 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
193 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
194 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
195 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
196 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
198 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
199 Küster (Closes: #403391).
200 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
201 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
202 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
203 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
204 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
205 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
206 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
207 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
208 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
209 Closes: #186700, #458910
210 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
211 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
212 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
214 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
215 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
216 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
217 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
218 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
219 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
220 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
221 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
223 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
224 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
226 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
227 * Add an md5sums control file.
228 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
229 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
230 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
231 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
232 currently part of policy.
233 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
234 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
235 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
238 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
240 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
242 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
243 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
244 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
245 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
246 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
247 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
248 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
249 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
250 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
251 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
252 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
253 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
254 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
255 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
256 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
257 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
259 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
261 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
262 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
263 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
265 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
266 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
267 list?" (Closes: #412634).
268 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
269 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
270 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
271 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
272 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
273 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
274 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
275 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
276 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
277 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
278 debconf specification.
279 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
280 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
282 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
284 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
286 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
287 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
288 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
289 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
290 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
292 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
294 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
295 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
296 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
297 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
298 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
300 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
301 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
302 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
303 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
304 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
305 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
306 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
307 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
308 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
309 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
310 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
311 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
312 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
313 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
314 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
315 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
317 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
319 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
320 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
321 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
322 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
323 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
324 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
325 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
326 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
328 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
330 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
332 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
333 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
334 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
335 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
336 Polo (Closes: #372497).
337 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
338 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
340 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
341 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
342 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
343 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
344 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
345 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
346 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
347 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
348 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
349 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
351 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
352 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
353 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
354 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
355 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
356 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
358 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
360 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
362 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
363 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
364 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
365 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
367 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
368 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
370 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
372 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
374 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
375 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
376 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
377 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
378 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
379 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
380 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
381 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
382 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
383 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
385 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
386 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
387 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
388 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
389 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
390 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
391 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
392 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
393 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
394 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
395 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
398 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
400 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
402 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
403 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
404 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
405 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
406 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
407 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
408 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
409 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
410 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
411 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
412 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
413 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
414 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
415 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
416 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
417 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
418 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
419 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
420 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
421 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
422 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
423 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
424 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
425 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
426 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
427 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
428 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
429 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
431 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
432 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
433 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
434 Hess (Closes: #362247).
435 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
436 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
437 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
438 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
439 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
440 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
441 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
442 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
443 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
444 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
445 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
446 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
448 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
449 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
451 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
452 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
453 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
454 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
455 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
456 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
457 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
458 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
459 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
460 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
461 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
463 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
465 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
468 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
469 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
470 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
471 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
472 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
473 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
474 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
475 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
476 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
477 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
478 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
479 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
480 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
482 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
483 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
484 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
485 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
486 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
487 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
488 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
489 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
490 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
491 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
492 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
493 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
494 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
495 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
496 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
497 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
498 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
499 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
500 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
503 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
505 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
507 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
508 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
509 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
510 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
512 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
513 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
514 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
515 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
517 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
519 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
522 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
523 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
524 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
525 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
526 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
527 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
528 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
529 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
530 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
531 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
533 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
534 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
535 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
537 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
538 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
539 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
540 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
541 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
542 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
543 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
545 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
546 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
547 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
548 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
550 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
551 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
552 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
553 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
554 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
555 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
556 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
557 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
559 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
560 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
561 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
562 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
563 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
564 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
565 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
566 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
567 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
568 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
569 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
570 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
571 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
572 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
573 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
574 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
575 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
577 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
579 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
582 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
583 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
584 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
585 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
586 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
587 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
588 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
589 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
590 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
592 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
593 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
594 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
595 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
596 this section. closes: Bug#248618
597 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
598 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
599 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
600 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
601 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
602 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
603 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
604 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
605 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
606 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
607 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
608 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
610 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
611 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
612 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
615 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
616 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
617 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
619 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
620 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
621 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
622 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
623 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
624 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
626 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
627 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
629 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
630 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
631 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
632 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
633 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
634 Closes: #185943, #237049
636 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
638 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
641 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
644 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
645 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
646 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
647 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
648 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
649 running. closes: Bug#187250
650 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
651 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
652 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
653 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
654 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
655 user closes: Bug#176506
657 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
659 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
662 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
663 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
664 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
665 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
666 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
667 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
668 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
669 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
670 deb-building toolchain.
671 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
672 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
673 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
674 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
675 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
676 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
677 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
678 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
679 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
680 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
681 sections about changelog files.
683 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
684 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
685 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
686 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
687 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
688 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
690 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
691 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
692 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
693 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
694 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
695 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
696 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
697 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
698 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
699 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
700 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
701 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
702 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
703 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
704 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
705 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
706 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
707 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
708 for the restructuring
710 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
712 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
715 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
717 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
718 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
719 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
720 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
721 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
722 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
724 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
725 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
726 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
727 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
728 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
729 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
730 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
732 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
733 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
734 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
735 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
737 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
739 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
742 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
743 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
744 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
745 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
746 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
747 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
749 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
750 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
751 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
752 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
754 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
755 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
756 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
757 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
758 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
759 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
760 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
761 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
762 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
764 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
765 script should start it, closes: #60979
766 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
767 "should", closes: #170019
768 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
769 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
770 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
771 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
772 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
773 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
774 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
775 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
778 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
780 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
783 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
784 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
785 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
786 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
787 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
788 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
789 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
790 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
791 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
793 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
794 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
795 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
796 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
797 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
798 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
799 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
800 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
801 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
803 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
804 file, closes: Bug#65764
806 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
808 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
810 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
811 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
812 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
813 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
814 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
815 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
816 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
817 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
818 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
819 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
820 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
821 details. closes: Bug#133030
822 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
823 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
826 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
828 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
830 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
831 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
832 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
833 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
834 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
835 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
836 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
837 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
838 not. closes: Bug#139820
839 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
840 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
841 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
842 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
843 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
844 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
845 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
846 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
847 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
848 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
850 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
852 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
853 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
854 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
855 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
856 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
857 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
858 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
859 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
860 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
861 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
862 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
863 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
864 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
865 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
866 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
867 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
868 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
869 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
870 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
871 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
873 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
874 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
875 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
876 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
877 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
878 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
879 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
881 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
882 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
883 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
884 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
885 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
886 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
887 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
888 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
889 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
891 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
893 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
895 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
896 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
897 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
898 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
899 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
900 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
901 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
902 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
903 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
904 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
905 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
906 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
907 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
908 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
909 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
910 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
911 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
912 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
913 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
914 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
915 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
916 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
917 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
919 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
921 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
923 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
924 medium, high, emergency.
925 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
926 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
927 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
928 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
929 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
932 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
933 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
934 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
936 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
937 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
938 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
939 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
940 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
941 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
942 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
945 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
947 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
949 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
950 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
951 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
952 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
954 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
955 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
956 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
957 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
958 debian/rules to do this
959 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
960 patches are incorporated upstream
961 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
962 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
963 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
964 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
965 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
966 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
968 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
969 system closes: Bug#91249
970 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
971 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
972 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
973 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
974 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
975 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
976 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
977 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
978 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
979 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
980 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
981 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
982 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
984 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
986 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
988 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
989 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
990 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
991 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
993 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
994 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
995 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
997 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1000 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1002 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1005 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1006 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1007 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1008 package for the time being
1009 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1010 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1011 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1012 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1013 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1014 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1015 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1016 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1017 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1018 Build-Depends arch syntax
1019 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1021 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1022 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1024 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1025 from policy maintenance duties.
1026 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1027 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1029 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1031 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1035 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1037 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1040 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1041 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1042 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1043 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1044 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1045 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1046 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1047 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1048 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1049 minor version number for this
1050 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1051 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1052 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1053 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1054 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1055 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1056 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1057 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1058 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1060 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1062 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1065 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1066 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1067 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1068 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1070 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1072 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1073 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1074 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1075 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1076 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1077 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1078 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1079 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1080 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1081 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1082 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1083 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1084 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1085 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1086 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1087 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1090 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1092 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1095 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1097 * Document the Enhances relationship
1098 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1099 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1100 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1101 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1102 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1103 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1105 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1107 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1108 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1109 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1110 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1112 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1113 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1114 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1115 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1116 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1118 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1120 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1122 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1123 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1124 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1126 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1127 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1128 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1129 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1130 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1131 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1132 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1133 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1134 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1136 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1138 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1140 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1143 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1144 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1145 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1146 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1147 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1148 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1149 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1150 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1151 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1152 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1153 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1154 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1155 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1156 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1157 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1158 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1159 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1160 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1161 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1162 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1163 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1165 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1166 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1168 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1170 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1172 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1173 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1174 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1175 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1176 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1177 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1178 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1179 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1180 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1181 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1182 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1183 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1184 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1185 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1186 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1187 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1188 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1189 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1190 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1191 list closes: Bug#53756
1192 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1193 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1194 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1195 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1196 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1197 policy closes: Bug#53760
1198 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1199 policy closes: Bug#53761
1200 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1201 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1202 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1203 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1204 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1205 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1206 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1207 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1208 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1209 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1210 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1212 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1213 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1214 to install with older fileutils.
1215 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1216 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1217 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1218 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1220 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1221 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1223 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1225 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1227 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1228 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1230 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1232 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1235 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1237 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1240 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1243 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1245 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1247 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1249 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1252 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1254 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1256 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1259 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1260 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1261 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1262 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1263 directoried (closes: #41547)
1264 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1265 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1266 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1267 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1268 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1269 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1270 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1271 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1272 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1273 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1274 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1276 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1277 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1278 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1279 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1280 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1281 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1282 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1284 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1285 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1286 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1287 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1289 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1291 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1293 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1294 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1296 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1298 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1300 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1301 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1303 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1305 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1307 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1308 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1310 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1311 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1312 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1313 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1314 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1315 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1316 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1317 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1318 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1319 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1320 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1321 this closes: Bug#38612
1322 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1323 before. closes: Bug#40864
1325 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1327 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1329 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1330 officially uploaded.
1331 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1333 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1334 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1335 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1337 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1338 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1339 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1340 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1341 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1342 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1344 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1345 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1346 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1348 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1350 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1351 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1352 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1353 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1354 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1356 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1358 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1360 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1361 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1362 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1363 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1364 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1365 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1366 there). closes: Bug#34233
1367 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1368 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1369 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1370 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1371 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1373 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1375 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1378 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1379 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1380 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1383 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1384 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1385 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1386 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1387 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1390 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1391 number. closes: BUG#25911
1393 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1394 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1395 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1396 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1397 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1398 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1400 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1401 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1402 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1405 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1406 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1407 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1409 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1410 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1411 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1412 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1414 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1415 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1416 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1418 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1420 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1421 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1422 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1423 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1424 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1425 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1426 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1427 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1430 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1432 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1433 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1436 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1438 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1440 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1442 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1444 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1447 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1448 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1449 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1450 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1451 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1452 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1453 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1455 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1456 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1458 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1460 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1462 * non-maintainer release
1463 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1464 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1466 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1467 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1468 * no content changes
1469 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1471 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1473 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1477 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1479 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1481 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1483 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1484 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1485 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1487 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1488 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1490 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1491 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1492 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1493 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1495 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1496 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1497 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1498 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1499 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1500 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1501 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1503 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1504 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1505 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1508 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1509 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1510 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1512 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1513 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1514 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1516 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1517 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1519 * New version numbering scheme:
1521 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1522 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1523 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1526 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1527 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1528 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1529 differ between the manuals.
1531 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1532 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1533 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1534 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1536 * Packaging changes:
1538 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1539 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1541 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1543 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1545 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1547 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1549 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1550 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1551 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1553 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1554 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1557 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1558 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1559 file extension as the referenced file
1561 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1562 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1564 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1565 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1566 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1567 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1570 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1571 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1572 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1574 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1575 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1576 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1577 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1580 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1581 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
1584 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
1585 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
1586 reasonable default configuration
1588 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
1589 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
1590 by all news servers and clients
1592 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
1593 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
1594 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
1595 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
1596 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
1598 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1599 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
1602 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
1604 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1605 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
1607 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
1610 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
1611 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
1613 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
1614 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
1616 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1618 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
1620 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1623 - X library package is now called xlib6g
1624 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1625 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
1627 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
1629 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
1630 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
1631 * Don't use debstd anymore
1633 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
1635 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1638 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
1639 contrib/non-free policy
1640 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
1641 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
1642 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
1643 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
1644 - new section about `Daemons'
1645 - updated section about `Configuration files'
1646 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
1647 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
1648 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1649 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
1650 * Paper about libc6 migration:
1651 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
1652 * SGML source code included in package
1653 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
1655 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
1657 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1660 - completely reworked structure
1661 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
1662 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
1663 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
1664 - removed all those ugly footnotes
1665 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
1666 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
1667 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
1668 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
1669 - mention "orphaned packages"
1670 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
1671 distributions' policy
1672 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
1673 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
1674 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
1675 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
1676 - added section about arch spec strings
1677 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
1678 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
1679 - added section about "menus"
1680 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
1681 the new documentation policy soon
1682 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
1683 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
1685 - added section about editors and pagers
1686 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
1687 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
1688 - added section about device files
1689 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
1690 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
1691 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
1693 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
1694 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
1695 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
1696 - Added new section about obsolete names
1697 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
1698 * Fixed package's description
1700 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
1702 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1704 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
1706 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
1708 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1710 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
1711 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
1712 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
1713 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
1715 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
1717 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1719 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
1720 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
1721 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
1723 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
1724 and upload it "byhand" too.
1726 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
1728 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
1732 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
1733 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
1734 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
1735 functionality must not have the same name.
1736 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
1737 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
1738 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
1739 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
1740 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
1741 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
1742 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
1744 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
1745 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
1746 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
1747 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
1748 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
1749 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
1750 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
1751 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
1754 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
1756 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
1758 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
1760 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
1761 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
1762 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
1763 a package into. (Guy Maor)
1764 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
1767 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
1769 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
1771 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
1773 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
1774 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
1775 description of deb file format.
1776 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
1777 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
1779 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
1781 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
1782 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
1784 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
1786 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
1788 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
1789 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
1790 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
1791 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
1792 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
1793 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
1794 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
1795 packages in section on Procedure
1796 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
1797 a package maintainer
1798 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
1799 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
1800 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
1802 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
1803 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
1804 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
1805 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
1806 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
1807 on various shlib files
1808 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
1809 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
1810 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
1812 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
1814 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
1816 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
1817 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
1818 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
1820 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
1821 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
1822 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
1823 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
1824 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
1826 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
1828 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
1830 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
1832 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
1834 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
1835 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
1836 compatibility go in contrib.
1838 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
1839 instructions in policy manual.
1840 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
1843 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
1845 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
1847 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
1848 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
1849 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
1850 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
1852 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
1853 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
1856 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
1858 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
1860 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
1861 * More detail about changelog format names.
1863 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
1864 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
1868 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
1870 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
1872 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
1874 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
1876 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
1878 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
1880 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
1882 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
1883 * More verbosity about netiquette.
1884 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
1886 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
1888 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
1890 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
1892 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
1894 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
1898 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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