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debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low

  Manoj:
  * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
    docs", thanks to Joey Hess                             (Closes: #222553).
  * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
    Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
    modified during inclusion.                              (Closes: #203145).
  * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
    thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
    over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
    constructs before the gender police jump all over me.   (Closes: #273122).
  * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
                                                            (Closes: #260092).
  * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
    Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
    section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7  (Closes: #276953).
  * 
  * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
    archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
    Robinson                                                 (Closes: #284967).
  * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
    calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz 
    and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
    problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
                                                             (Closes: #286549).
  * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
    thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
    suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
    essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
                                                             (Closes: #291026).
  * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
    history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
    directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
    informative footnote.                                    (Closes: #290270).

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debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low

  Manoj:
  * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
    in 6.6 to a footnote.                                  closes: Bug#209855
  * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy.          closes: Bug#212153
  * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections            closes: Bug#215524
  * Fix spelling of sysv-rc                                closes: Bug#215558
  * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
    incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
    caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
    included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
                                                           closes: Bug#202054
  * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of  the
    version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
    developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
    packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
    this section.                                          closes: Bug#248618
  * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
    3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell                        (Closes: #248786).
  * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
    3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
    Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com>            (Closes: #248788, 247761).
  * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
    Giunchedi                                             (Closes: #236614).
  * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
    Srivastava                                           (Closes: #244969).
  * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
    Kevin Price                                          (Closes: #247143).
  * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
                                                          (Closes: #252392).
  * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
    Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart                     (Closes: #253324).
  * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
                                                          (Closes: #252086).
  Josip:
  * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence,            closes: #218530.
  * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
    footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
                                                           closes: #50565.
  * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
    to indicate recommended actions,                       closes: #51832.
  * Updated PGP references,                                closes: #68827.
  * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
    according to my skimming of dpkg-source,               closes: #70742.
  * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
                                                           closes: #75508.
  * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
    source tarballs,                                       closes: #79210.
  Andi:
  * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS.                         Closes: #241683
  * fix link to WM specification.                          Closes: #235484
  * manpage -> man page.                          Closes: #232364, #238958
  * language adjustment.                                   Closes: #227762
  * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
                                                  Closes: #185943, #237049

 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>  Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500

debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low

  Josip:
  * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
    closes: #193748.
  Manoj:
  * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
    hosted server.                                         closes: Bug#187297
  * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list  closes: Bug#203728
  * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
    --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
    running.                                               closes: Bug#187250
  * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
    the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy.     closes: Bug#200440
  * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
    removing the package.                                  closes: Bug#188030
  * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
    user                                                   closes: Bug#176506

 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>  Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500

debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low

  Josip:
  * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
    + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
      sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
      In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
      fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
      and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
      is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
      optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
      deb-building toolchain.
    + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
      chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
      Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
      properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
    + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
      with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
      everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
      Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
      talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
      and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
      sections about changelog files.
  Manoj:
  * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy               closes: Bug#194974
  * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy                 closes: Bug#194972
  * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
    wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
    number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
    bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
                                                           closes: Bug#174982
  * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
    resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
    machine.  This answers some of the issues mentioned in  Bug#175064
  * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
    mis-linked libraries                                   closes: Bug#191369
  * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
    during clean target.                       closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
  * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
    behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
    way relationship.                                      closes: Bug#183195
  * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
    been fixed in a previous change in the manual.         closes: Bug#193903
  * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
    consistent spelling across the manuals.                closes: Bug#189516
  * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy.                closes: Bug#187615
  * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
    changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues.     closes: Bug#169744
  * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
    for the restructuring

 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org>  Wed,  9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200

debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low

  Josip:
  * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
    closes: #182792.
  * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
    confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
  * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
  * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
  * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
  * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
  Manoj:
  * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
    extention to an informative footnote.                    closes: Bug#165063
  * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
    Window Manager Specification Project".                   closes: Bug#167004
  * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
    changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
    since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
                                                             closes: Bug#184518
  * Inserted the word only in the package name section.      closes: Bug#184368
  * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
    footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
    means in a computer context.                             closes: Bug#184507

 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org>  Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200

debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low

  Josip:
  * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
    the old Packaging manual,                                   closes: #172022
  * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
    base-passwd maintainer,                                     closes: #174927
  * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
    the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
                                                                closes: #174048
  * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
    Richard Braakman,       closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
  * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
    fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
                                                                closes: #103459
  * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci,       closes: #178455
  * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
    but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
    the dependencies so that there is no confusion,              closes: #87510
    If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
    requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
    please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
    through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
    explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
    offtopic stuff, too.
  * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
    script should start it,                                      closes: #60979
  * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
    "should",                                                   closes: #170019
  * Rearranged the shared library information properly,         closes: #109166
    This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
    in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous),                  closes: #93975
  * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
    that are meant to provide examples,                          closes: #69864
  * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
    imported from old packaging manual,                         closes: #181923
  * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
                                                                closes: #183544

 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org>  Fri,  7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600

debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low

  Manoj
  * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
    postsint.                                                closes: Bug#120585
  * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
    obsolete base section (I assume it is)                    closes: Bug#53582
  * Rearranged the virtual packages list.                     closes: Bug#72980
  * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
    debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
    debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
    is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.  
                                                             closes: Bug#164035
  * No longer depend on fileutils.                           closes: Bug#167425
  * Added the Apps/Science menu section                      closes: Bug#162812
  * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
    conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
    effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
    other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
    the new content, except where I made guesses.            closes: Bug#160776
  * Clarify section 13.3.                                    closes: Bug#160248
  * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement.            closes: Bug#39830
  Josip
  * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
    file,                                                     closes: Bug#65764

 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>  Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600

debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
  * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
    may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
  * Fix the groff and col -b interaction                     closes: Bug#164755
  * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist             closes: Bug#160914
  * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
  * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
    symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
    previous section of policy 13.6)                         closes: Bug#111137
  * Removed a spurious + from text.                          closes: Bug#160908
  * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
    details.                                                 closes: Bug#133030
  * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS.          closes: Bug#122928
  * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
    parts of Bug#161455.

 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>  Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500

debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
  * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
  * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
    the new error reported to bug #137521                    closes: Bug#137521
  * Fixed a couple of typos                                  closes: Bug#139832
  * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
    the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
    since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
    not.                                                     closes: Bug#139820
  * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
    requiring a notification.                                closes: Bug#106280
  * Added a build dependson docbook utils.                   closes: Bug#154660
  * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
    should display better with lynx.                         closes: Bug#153704
  * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment.          closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
  * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
    special field in the control file (and these should be added only
    after discussion on the mailing lists)                    closes: Bug#97755
  * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
                                                             closes: Bug#109672
  * Fix the doc base file for policy process     closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
                                                             closes: Bug#146756
  * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this.      closes: Bug#139969
  * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
    maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/           closes: Bug#144297
  * Add a standards version                                  closes: Bug#145067
  * Added virtual package debconf-2.0                        closes: Bug#151328
  * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
    window manager selection mechanism                       closes: Bug#155680
  * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
    disambiguated.                                           closes: Bug#114949
  * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
    build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist      closes: Bug#116134
  * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
    the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
    since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway.    closes: Bug#131441
  * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
    packages with the same name.                             closes: Bug#134977
  * Fixed typo 'be be'                                       closes: Bug#138681
  * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion         closes: Bug#140697
  * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs:                               closes: Bug#141903
  * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
                                                             closes: Bug#143770
  * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy           closes: Bug#152965
  * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
    and soversion if the library name ends in a number.      closes: Bug#100472
  * Permit some libraries to only install static libs.       closes: Bug#100346
  * Remove the debug option, add noopt           closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
  * provide dhcp-client virtual package.                     closes: Bug#154142
  * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
                                                             closes: Bug#150456
  * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml.    closes: Bug#146703
  * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
    this                                         closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
  * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary                  closes: Bug#139067
  * Added virtual package radius-server                      closes: Bug#118608
  * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue.           closes: Bug#112828
  * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions.            closes: Bug#111025
  * Not a policy issue.                                      closes: Bug#106826
  * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause.          closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311

 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>  Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500

debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
    FHS mailing list.                                        closes: Bug#137172
  * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
    exist, and does contain the menu policy.     closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
  * Added java related virtual packages                      closes: Bug#110713
  * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
    scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
    configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
    either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
    or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
    does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
    conformant packages.                                     closes: Bug#132621
  * Fixed error in doc-base file                             closes: Bug#137521
  * fixed typo in virtual packages list                      closes: Bug#110446
  * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist.                       closes: Bug#110705
  * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy                  closes: Bug#122931
  * Fixed grammar errors in the policy                       closes: Bug#126131
  * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
    wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
    there is interest, new bugs can be filed.      closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
  * Added the virtual package dict-client                    closes: Bug#122996
  * Added the virtual package foomatic-data                  closes: Bug#123570
  * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer               closes: Bug#131781

 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>  Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600

debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
    medium, high, emergency.
  * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
    which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
  * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
                                                  closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
  * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
                                                             closes: Bug#102199

  * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy   closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
  * Spelling correction                                      closes: Bug#105625
  * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
                                                             closes: Bug#100631
  * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
    debian/rules                                             closes: Bug#72335
  * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
    informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
    its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
    the information provided.                                closes: Bug#105535
  * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
                                                             closes: Bug#105538

 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>  Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500

debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
    3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
    merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
  * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
    3.0.0 onwards
  * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
  * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
  * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
  * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
    debian/rules to do this
  * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
    patches are incorporated upstream
  * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
  * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2                 closes: Bug#92744
  * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
    clearer (add "for use by scripts")
  * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section      closes: Bug#89473
  * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
                                                     closes: Bug#89674
  * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
    system                                           closes: Bug#91249
  * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy              closes: Bug#91252
  * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy           closes: Bug#91259
  * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS      closes: Bug#91260
  * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif        closes: Bug#91261
  * The X Font policy rewrite                        closes: Bug#91257
  * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
    to find alternative manpage names                closes: Bug#94995
  * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version       closes: Bug#97072
  * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
  * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last)           closes: Bug#66023
  * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
    mention this in control file                     closes: Bug#95906
  * Clarification in Perl policy                     closes: Bug#98712

 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>  Fri,  1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100

debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail  closes: Bug#42052
  * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy       closes: Bug#83977
  * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
    grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
    Julian's fixes:
  * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
  * Fixed the confusing self referential language.   closes: Bug#85503
  * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
                                                     closes: Bug#86436
  * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
                                                     closes: Bug#87233

 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>  Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500

debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
                                    closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
  * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
  * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
    package for the time being
  * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
  * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
  * Corrected GPL name and location         closes: Bug#88788, #93047
  * Correct bug severities                          closes: Bug#91276
  * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
  * Rename all .text files as .txt
  * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy                 closes: Bug#87007
  * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation  closes: Bug#88651
  * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing        closes: Bug#87828
    Build-Depends arch syntax
  * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example  closes: Bug#87711
    configuration files
  * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
    the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
    version.
  * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
    from policy maintenance duties.
  * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
    Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com>        closes: Bug#84236

 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>  Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500

debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment             closes: Bug#83069

 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>  Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000

debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * Removed deprecated virtual package names        closes: Bug#84641
  * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
  * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
  * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
                            closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
                            closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
                            closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
                            closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
  * No longer include the old proposal document     closes: Bug#84079
  * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
    minor version number for this
  * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
    correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
  * Clarify error conditions for package installation
                                       (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
  * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
    accident!)                 (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
  * Clean version numbering string     (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
  * Install HTML version of FHS                     closes: Bug#83487
  * Removed bashism from debian/rules

 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>  Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000

debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
    peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
    updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
    magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
  * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
    <cts@nikocity.de>
  * Added mention of  DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
                                                    closes: Bug#83924
  * Fixed some typos.                               closes: Bug#83960
  * Policy now mentions preinst scripts.            closes: Bug#80342
  * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
    management system (debconf)                     closes: Bug#80347
  * Yet more typo fixes                             closes: Bug#82743
  * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
    xutils                                          closes: Bug#82966
  * Fixed the date in the virtual package list      closes: Bug#83438
  * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
    to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>        closes: Bug#83065
  * Corrected reference to the mime policy.         closes: Bug#79891
  * Corrected reference to the menu policy.         closes: Bug#75925
  * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
    illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
    informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
    potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
                                                    closes: Bug#80506

 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>  Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600

debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
    root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
    this version.
  * Document the Enhances relationship
  * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
    maintain a package.                            closes: Bug#51879
  * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
    policy.                                        closes: Bug#53496
  * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
    in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
                                                   closes: Bug#53700
  * Clarified update-rc.d stuff                    closes: Bug#55048

  * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
    of this is not relevant to policy anyway.      closes: Bug#55730
  * makedev--> MAKEDEV                             closes: Bug#57154
  * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
                                                   closes: Bug#59403
  * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
    that deals with copyright files.               closes: Bug#65765
  * init script configuration variables            closes: Bug#66912
  * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
    as conflicting                                 closes: Bug#76028

 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>  Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600

debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
  * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
    change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
    going to be buggy.
                                                    closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
  * Fixed typo in menu-policy.                      closes: Bug#70442
  * Fixed typo in policy manual                     closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
  * Removed extraneous > from policy                closes: Bug#77645
  * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist          closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
  * Fixed spelling of utility                       closes: Bug#82458
  * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
    non-US/{main,contrib}                          closes: Bug#69229
  * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
                                                   closes: Bug#77404
  * Fixed outdated references to the FHS.          closes: Bug#77650

 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>  Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600

debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
    not" policy.                                        closes: Bug#53759
  * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy  This is only a
    clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
    policy.                                             closes: Bug#64437
  * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles.   closes: Bug#61308
  * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/     closes: Bug#62668
  * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout  closes: Bug#62946
  * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/  closes: Bug#62947
  * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/            closes: Bug#62948
  * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/                               closes: Bug#64516
  * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package            closes: Bug#64004
  * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package            closes: Bug#64006
  * new virtual package time-daemon                     closes: Bug#69031
  * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml                   closes: Bug#69424
  * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml        closes: Bug#69426
  * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
    incorrect.                                          closes: Bug#69487
  * [PATCH] more corrections                            closes: Bug#69670
  * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition      closes: Bug#46522
  * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n         closes: Bug#48247
  * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
                                                        closes: Bug#50832
  * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
    telnet-client                                       closes: Bug#58759

 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>  Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500

debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
  * We have had doc-base support for a while now.       closes: Bug#15709
  * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
    behaviour.                                          closes: Bug#17369
  * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles       closes: Bug#22935
  * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
    fixed usage for dpkg-divert                         closes: Bug#29522
  * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
    on dependancies and priorities                      closes: Bug#39398
  * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
  * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal       closes: Bug#43787
  * Fixed missing </chapt> tag.                         closes: Bug#51091
  * Correct typo in section 2.3.5                       closes: Bug#52225
  * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
    (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
    is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg.    closes: Bug#53405
  * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
    alternative                                         closes: Bug#53755
  * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
    list                                                closes: Bug#53756
  * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
     virtual package and alternative                    closes: Bug#53757
  * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
     virtual package and alternative                    closes: Bug#53758
  * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
    policy                                              closes: Bug#53760
  * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
    policy                                              closes: Bug#53761
  * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
    that use X                                          closes: Bug#53762
  * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages    closes: Bug#53763
  * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
    that is where they belong, really.                  closes: Bug#54777
  * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals.              closes: Bug#56407
  * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
    was it defined before anyway?)                      closes: Bug#56692
  * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
  * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
    dpkg-gencontrol.                                    closes: Bug#58771
  * Other changes:
  * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
  * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
    to install with older fileutils.
  * Installed FHS version 2.1
  * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
  * Added FHS details to copyright file
  * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
    file.
  * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
    dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730

 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>  Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500

debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
    not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.

 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>  Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600

debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
  * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)

 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>  Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000


debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
  * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
    #50502)
  * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)

 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>  Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000

debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
    description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)

 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>  Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000

debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
    #45561, #42447, #48570)
  * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
  * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
  * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
    directoried (closes: #41547)
  * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
  * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
    suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
  * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
  * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
  * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
  * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
  * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
  * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
    package criteria (closes: #45318)
  * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
    #41829)
  * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
  * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
  * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
  * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
  * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
  * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
  * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
    #40766, #40767)
  * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
  * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
  * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
  * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
    (closes: #17621)
  * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
    #19179)
  * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
    #41095)
  * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
  * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file

 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>  Thu,  4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000

debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
  * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.

 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>  Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500

debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * A few typos and omissions corrected
  * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
    list.
  * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
  * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
    packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
    .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
    is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
  * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
    while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
  * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
  * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
  * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
  * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
    this closes: Bug#38612
  * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
    before. closes: Bug#40864

 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>  Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500

debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
    officially uploaded.
  * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
    .deb packages)
  * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
  * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
    Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
    closes: Bug#21969
  * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
    /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
    footnote. closes: Bug#28747
  * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
    closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
  * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
    closes: Bug# 37342
  * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
    Window System) closes: Bug#38212
  * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
    closes: Bug#37713
  * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
    closes: Bug#37389
  * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
    Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
    scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
  * Updated the upgrading checklist.
  * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest

 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>  Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500

debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
  * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
    closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
  * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
  * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
    document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
    there). closes: Bug#34233
  * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
  * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
  * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
    /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
  * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148

 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>  Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500

debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
    to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
    become Section 4.  The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
    Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
    accordingly.

    What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
    subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
    placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
    4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9.  All subsections of the
    current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
    in the number gap.

    This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
    number. closes: BUG#25911

  * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
    compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
    HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
    /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
    symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
    conventions. closes: BUG#21185

  * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
    documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
    main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
    closes: BUG#7890

  * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
    to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
    /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461

  * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
    architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
    where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
    we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385

  * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
    the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
    managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.

  * Make the package optional, not extra.

  * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
    and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
    converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
    I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
    process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
    predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
    some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
    paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
    it is, really).

  * Re did the control files, making them more robust

  * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
    by putting in a layer of abstractions.


 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>  Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600

debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low

  * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>

 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>  Sat,  5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100

debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low

  * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
  * policy.sgml:    some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
  * policy.sgml:    s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
  * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
    sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
  * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
  * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
    current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
    or date anywhere
  * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
  * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)

 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>  Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100

debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low

  * non-maintainer release
  * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
    important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
    annoying.)
  * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
    but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
  * no content changes
  * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner

 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org>  Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400

debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low

  * Orphaned package

 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>  Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200

debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low

  * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:

    - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
          and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
      + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)

    - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
      + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)

    - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
      + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
        symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
        (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)

    - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
      + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
      + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
        as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
      + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
        and restart options and to comply with the console message
        standard (fixes:bug#19216)

    - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
      + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
        the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
        package.

    - Updated section 4.9 Games:
      + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
        (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)

    - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
    - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
      a recompiled manual uses the same release date

  * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
    - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'

  * New version numbering scheme:

    - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
      manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
      the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
      scheme.

    - The first three digits of the version number specify the
      `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
      change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
      differ between the manuals.

      If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
      have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
      have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
      `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.

  * Packaging changes:

    - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
      package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.

    - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)

 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>  Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200

debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:

    - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
      + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
      + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
        interpreter
      + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
        (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
        the directory

    - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
      + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
        file extension as the referenced file

    - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
      + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*

    - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
      + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
        start, stop, restart, force-reload
      + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
        the service

    - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
      + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
        be installed into /etc/cron.d

    - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
      + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
        (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
        has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
        obsolete)

    - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
      + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
        handled

    - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
      + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
        reasonable default configuration

    - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
      + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
        by all news servers and clients

    - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
      + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
        as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
      + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
        against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library

    - Updated section 4.9 Games:
      + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
        non-X games

    - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)

  * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
    - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'

  * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
    changelog file

  * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
    Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz

  * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
    online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)

  * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)

 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>  Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100

debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
    - X library package is now called xlib6g
  * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
    - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
      lambdamoo-server
  * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
    (fixes #13790)
  * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
    the draft official policy (which is not the case)
  * Don't use debstd anymore

 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>  Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200

debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
    - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
      contrib/non-free policy
    - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
    - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
    - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
      maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
    - new section about `Daemons'
    - updated section about `Configuration files'
    - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
    - fixed typos and grammatical errors
  * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
    - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
  * Paper about libc6 migration:
    - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
  * SGML source code included in package
  * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)

 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>  Mon,  2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200

debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
    - completely reworked structure
    - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
      releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
    - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
    - removed all those ugly footnotes
    - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
    - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
    - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
    - rewrote abstract and section introductions
    - mention "orphaned packages"
    - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
      distributions' policy
    - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
    - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
    - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
    - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
    - added section about arch spec strings
    - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
    - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
    - added section about "menus"
    - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
      the new documentation policy soon
    - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
    - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
      #11008)
    - added section about editors and pagers
    - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
    - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
    - added section about device files
    - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
    - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
    - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
      etc.)
  * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
    - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
      compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
    - Added new section about obsolete names
  * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
  * Fixed package's description

 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>  Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200

debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low

  * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)

 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>  Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200

debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
  * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
  * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
    by Kai Henningsen (#7076)

 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>  Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200

debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
  * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
  * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
    "byhand".
  * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
    and upload it "byhand" too.

 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>  Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200

debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * Initial Release.
  * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
  * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
  * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
  * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
    functionality must not have the same name.
  * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
    changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
  * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
    as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
  * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
  * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
  * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
    for libraries)
  * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
    to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
    <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
  * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
    "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
  * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
    "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
  * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
    fixes bug #6130.

 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>  Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100

debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;

  * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
  Programmer's manual
  * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
  * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
  * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
  a package into. (Guy Maor)
  * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
  Programmer 6.1.

 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net>  Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600

debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;

  * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
  Guy Maor and others
  * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
  * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
  description of deb file format.
  * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
  * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
  shared libraries.
  * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
  (Bug #2481)
  * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
  * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change

 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net>  Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600

debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;

  * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
  * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
  * Added section headings for copyright criteria
  * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
  * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
    static libraries. (Bug #5299)
  * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
    packages in section on Procedure
  * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
    a package maintainer
  * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
  * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
    frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.

  * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
  * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
  * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
    the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
  * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
    on various shlib files
  * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
  * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
    Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)

 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net>  Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600

debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;

  * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
    and can't easily be made to work reliably).
  * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.

  * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
  * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
  * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
  * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
  * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.

  * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.

 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk>  Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100

debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;

  * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).

  * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
  * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
    compatibility go in contrib.

  * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
    instructions in policy manual.
  * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
    package in contrib.

 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100

debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;

  * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
  * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
  * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
  * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.

  * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
  * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
  * Typo fixes.

 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100

debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;

  * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
  * More detail about changelog format names.

  * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
  * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
  * Typos corrected.
  * Released.

 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100

debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;

  * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.

 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100

debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;

  * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.

  * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.

  * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
  * More verbosity about netiquette.
  * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.

 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100

debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;

  * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.

 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100

debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;

  * Draft releases.

 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100