1 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
4 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
5 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
7 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
9 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
10 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
11 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
12 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
14 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
15 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
16 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
17 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
19 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
20 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
21 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
22 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
23 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
24 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
25 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
26 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
27 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
29 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
30 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
31 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
32 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
34 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
35 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
36 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
37 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
39 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
40 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
41 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
42 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
44 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
45 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
46 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
47 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
49 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
51 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
52 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
53 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
54 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
55 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
56 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
58 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:34:54 -0700
60 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
63 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
66 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
69 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
70 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
71 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
72 and distribution license' (three times).
73 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
74 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
75 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
76 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
77 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
79 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
81 Proposed by Santiago Vila
82 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
83 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
84 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
85 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
89 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
90 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
91 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
92 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
94 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
95 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
96 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
97 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
98 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
99 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
101 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
102 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
103 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
104 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
106 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
107 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
108 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
109 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
110 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
112 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
113 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
114 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
115 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
116 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
118 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
119 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
120 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
121 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
122 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
124 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
125 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
126 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
127 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
129 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
130 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
131 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
132 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
133 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
135 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
136 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
137 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
138 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
140 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
141 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
142 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
143 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
145 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
146 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
147 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
148 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
149 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
151 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
152 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
153 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
154 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
156 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
157 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
158 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
159 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
160 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
162 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
163 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
164 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
165 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
167 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
168 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
169 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
170 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
171 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
172 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
173 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
174 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
175 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
176 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
177 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
178 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
179 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
180 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
181 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
182 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
183 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
184 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
185 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
186 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
187 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
188 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
189 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
190 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
191 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
192 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
193 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
194 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
195 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
196 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
197 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
198 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
200 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
202 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
204 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
207 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
208 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
210 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
211 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
215 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
218 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
219 Wording: Steve Langasek.
220 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
221 Seconded: Julien Cristau
222 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
225 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
226 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
227 Seconded: Russ Allbery
228 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
231 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
232 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
233 Seconded: Russ Allbery
235 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
236 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
237 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
238 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
239 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
240 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
241 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
242 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
243 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
245 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
246 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
247 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
248 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
249 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
250 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
251 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
252 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
253 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
254 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
255 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
256 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
257 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
258 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
259 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
260 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
262 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
263 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
264 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
265 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
266 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
268 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
271 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
272 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
273 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
274 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
275 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
276 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
279 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
281 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
283 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
284 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
285 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
286 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
288 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
289 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
290 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
291 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
293 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
294 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
295 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
296 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
298 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
299 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
300 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
301 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
302 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
303 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
305 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
306 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
307 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
308 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
309 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
311 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
312 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
313 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
314 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
316 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
317 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
318 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
319 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
321 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
322 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
323 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
324 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
326 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
327 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
328 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
329 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
331 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
332 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
333 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
334 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
336 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
337 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
338 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
339 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
340 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
341 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
342 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
343 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
344 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
345 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
346 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
347 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
348 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
349 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
350 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
352 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
353 Source field descriptions.
354 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
355 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
356 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
357 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
358 description says otherwise.
360 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
362 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
365 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
366 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
367 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
368 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
369 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
370 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
372 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
373 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
374 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
375 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
377 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
378 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
379 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
380 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
382 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
383 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
384 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
385 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
387 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
388 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
389 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
390 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
394 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
395 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
396 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
397 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
398 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
400 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
401 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
402 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
403 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
405 * Add myself to Uploaders.
408 * Add myself to Uploaders.
409 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
411 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
412 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
413 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
415 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
417 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
419 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
420 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
421 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
422 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
424 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
425 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
426 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
427 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
429 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
430 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
431 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
432 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
434 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
435 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
436 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
437 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
439 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
440 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
441 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
442 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
444 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
445 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
446 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
447 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
449 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
450 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
451 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
452 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
454 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
455 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
456 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
457 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
459 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
460 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
461 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
462 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
464 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
465 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
466 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
467 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
469 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
470 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
471 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
472 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
473 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
475 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
476 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
477 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
478 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
479 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
480 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
481 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
482 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
483 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
484 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
485 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
486 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
487 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
488 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
489 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
490 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
491 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
492 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
493 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
494 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
495 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
496 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
497 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
498 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
499 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
500 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
501 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
502 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
503 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
504 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
506 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
507 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
508 links was completed long ago.
509 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
511 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
513 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
515 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
516 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
518 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
520 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
522 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
523 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
524 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
525 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
526 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
527 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
528 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
529 Millan (Closes: #209008).
530 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
531 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
533 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
535 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
537 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
538 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
539 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
540 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
541 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
542 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
543 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
545 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
546 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
547 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
548 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
550 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
551 Küster (Closes: #403391).
552 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
553 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
554 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
555 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
556 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
557 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
558 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
559 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
560 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
561 Closes: #186700, #458910
562 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
563 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
564 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
566 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
567 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
568 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
569 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
570 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
571 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
572 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
573 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
575 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
576 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
578 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
579 * Add an md5sums control file.
580 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
581 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
582 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
583 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
584 currently part of policy.
585 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
586 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
587 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
590 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
592 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
594 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
595 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
596 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
597 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
598 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
599 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
600 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
601 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
602 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
603 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
604 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
605 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
606 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
607 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
608 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
609 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
611 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
613 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
614 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
615 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
617 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
618 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
619 list?" (Closes: #412634).
620 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
621 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
622 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
623 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
624 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
625 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
626 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
627 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
628 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
629 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
630 debconf specification.
631 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
632 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
634 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
636 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
638 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
639 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
640 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
641 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
642 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
644 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
646 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
647 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
648 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
649 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
650 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
652 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
653 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
654 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
655 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
656 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
657 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
658 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
659 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
660 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
661 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
662 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
663 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
664 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
665 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
666 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
667 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
669 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
671 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
672 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
673 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
674 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
675 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
676 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
677 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
678 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
680 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
682 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
684 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
685 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
686 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
687 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
688 Polo (Closes: #372497).
689 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
690 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
692 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
693 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
694 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
695 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
696 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
697 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
698 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
699 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
700 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
701 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
703 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
704 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
705 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
706 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
707 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
708 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
710 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
712 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
714 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
715 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
716 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
717 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
719 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
720 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
722 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
724 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
726 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
727 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
728 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
729 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
730 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
731 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
732 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
733 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
734 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
735 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
737 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
738 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
739 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
740 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
741 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
742 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
743 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
744 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
745 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
746 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
747 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
750 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
752 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
754 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
755 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
756 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
757 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
758 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
759 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
760 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
761 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
762 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
763 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
764 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
765 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
766 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
767 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
768 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
769 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
770 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
771 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
772 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
773 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
774 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
775 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
776 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
777 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
778 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
779 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
780 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
781 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
783 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
784 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
785 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
786 Hess (Closes: #362247).
787 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
788 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
789 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
790 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
791 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
792 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
793 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
794 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
795 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
796 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
797 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
798 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
800 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
801 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
803 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
804 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
805 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
806 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
807 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
808 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
809 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
810 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
811 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
812 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
813 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
815 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
817 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
820 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
821 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
822 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
823 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
824 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
825 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
826 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
827 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
828 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
829 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
830 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
831 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
832 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
834 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
835 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
836 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
837 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
838 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
839 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
840 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
841 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
842 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
843 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
844 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
845 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
846 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
847 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
848 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
849 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
850 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
851 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
852 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
855 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
857 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
859 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
860 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
861 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
862 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
864 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
865 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
866 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
867 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
869 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
871 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
874 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
875 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
876 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
877 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
878 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
879 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
880 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
881 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
882 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
883 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
885 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
886 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
887 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
889 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
890 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
891 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
892 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
893 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
894 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
895 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
897 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
898 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
899 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
900 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
902 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
903 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
904 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
905 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
906 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
907 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
908 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
909 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
911 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
912 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
913 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
914 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
915 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
916 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
917 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
918 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
919 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
920 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
921 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
922 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
923 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
924 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
925 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
926 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
927 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
929 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
931 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
934 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
935 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
936 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
937 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
938 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
939 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
940 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
941 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
942 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
944 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
945 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
946 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
947 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
948 this section. closes: Bug#248618
949 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
950 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
951 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
952 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
953 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
954 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
955 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
956 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
957 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
958 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
959 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
960 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
962 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
963 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
964 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
967 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
968 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
969 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
971 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
972 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
973 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
974 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
975 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
976 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
978 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
979 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
981 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
982 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
983 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
984 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
985 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
986 Closes: #185943, #237049
988 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
990 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
993 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
996 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
997 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
998 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
999 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1000 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1001 running. closes: Bug#187250
1002 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1003 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1004 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1005 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1006 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1007 user closes: Bug#176506
1009 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1011 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1015 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1016 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1017 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1018 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1019 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1020 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1021 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1022 deb-building toolchain.
1023 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1024 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1025 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1026 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1027 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1028 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1029 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1030 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1031 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1032 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1033 sections about changelog files.
1035 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1036 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1037 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1038 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1039 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1040 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1042 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1043 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1044 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1045 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1046 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1047 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1048 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1049 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1050 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1051 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1052 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1053 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1054 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1055 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1056 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1057 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1058 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1059 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1060 for the restructuring
1062 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1064 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1069 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1070 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1071 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1072 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1073 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1074 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1076 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1077 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1078 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1079 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1080 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1081 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1082 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1084 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1085 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1086 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1087 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1089 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1091 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1095 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1096 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1097 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1098 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1099 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1101 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1102 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1103 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1104 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1106 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1107 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1108 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1109 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1110 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1111 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1112 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1113 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1114 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1115 offtopic stuff, too.
1116 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1117 script should start it, closes: #60979
1118 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1119 "should", closes: #170019
1120 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1121 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1122 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1123 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1124 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1125 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1126 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1127 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1130 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1132 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1135 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1136 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1137 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1138 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1139 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1140 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1141 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1142 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1143 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1145 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1146 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1147 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1148 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1149 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1150 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1151 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1152 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1153 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1155 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1156 file, closes: Bug#65764
1158 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1160 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1162 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1163 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1164 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1165 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1166 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1167 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1168 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1169 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1170 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1171 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1172 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1173 details. closes: Bug#133030
1174 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1175 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1176 parts of Bug#161455.
1178 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1180 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1182 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1183 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1184 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1185 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1186 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1187 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1188 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1189 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1190 not. closes: Bug#139820
1191 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1192 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1193 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1194 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1195 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1196 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1197 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1198 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1199 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1200 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1202 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1204 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1205 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1206 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1207 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1208 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1209 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1210 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1211 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1212 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1213 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1214 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1215 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1216 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1217 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1218 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1219 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1220 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1221 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1222 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1223 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1225 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1226 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1227 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1228 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1229 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1230 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1231 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1233 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1234 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1235 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1236 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1237 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1238 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1239 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1240 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1241 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1243 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1245 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1248 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1249 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1250 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1251 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1252 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1253 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1254 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1255 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1256 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1257 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1258 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1259 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1260 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1261 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1262 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1263 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1264 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1265 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1266 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1267 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1268 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1269 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1271 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1273 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1276 medium, high, emergency.
1277 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1278 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1279 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1280 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1281 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1284 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1285 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1286 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1288 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1289 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1290 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1291 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1292 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1293 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1294 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1297 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1299 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1302 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1303 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1304 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1306 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1307 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1308 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1309 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1310 debian/rules to do this
1311 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1312 patches are incorporated upstream
1313 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1314 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1315 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1316 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1317 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1318 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1320 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1321 system closes: Bug#91249
1322 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1323 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1324 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1325 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1326 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1327 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1328 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1329 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1330 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1331 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1332 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1333 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1334 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1336 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1338 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1341 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1342 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1343 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1345 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1346 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1347 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1349 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1352 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1354 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1357 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1358 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1359 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1360 package for the time being
1361 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1362 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1363 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1364 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1365 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1366 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1367 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1368 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1369 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1370 Build-Depends arch syntax
1371 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1373 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1374 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1376 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1377 from policy maintenance duties.
1378 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1379 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1381 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1383 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1385 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1387 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1389 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1391 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1392 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1393 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1394 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1395 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1396 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1397 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1398 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1399 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1400 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1401 minor version number for this
1402 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1403 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1404 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1405 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1406 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1407 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1408 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1409 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1410 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1412 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1414 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1417 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1418 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1419 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1420 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1422 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1424 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1425 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1426 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1427 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1428 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1429 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1430 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1431 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1432 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1433 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1434 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1435 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1436 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1437 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1438 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1439 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1442 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1444 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1447 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1449 * Document the Enhances relationship
1450 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1451 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1452 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1453 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1454 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1455 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1457 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1459 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1460 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1461 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1462 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1464 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1465 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1466 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1467 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1468 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1470 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1472 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1475 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1476 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1478 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1479 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1480 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1481 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1482 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1483 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1484 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1485 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1486 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1488 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1490 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1492 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1495 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1496 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1497 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1498 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1499 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1500 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1501 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1502 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1503 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1504 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1505 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1506 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1507 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1508 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1509 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1510 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1511 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1512 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1513 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1514 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1515 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1517 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1518 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1520 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1522 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1525 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1526 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1527 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1528 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1529 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1530 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1531 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1532 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1533 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1534 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1535 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1536 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1537 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1538 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1539 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1540 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1541 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1542 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1543 list closes: Bug#53756
1544 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1545 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1546 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1547 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1548 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1549 policy closes: Bug#53760
1550 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1551 policy closes: Bug#53761
1552 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1553 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1554 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1555 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1556 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1557 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1558 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1559 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1560 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1561 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1562 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1564 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1565 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1566 to install with older fileutils.
1567 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1568 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1569 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1570 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1572 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1573 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1575 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1577 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1580 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1582 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1584 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1587 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1589 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1592 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1594 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1595 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1597 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1599 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1601 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1604 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1606 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1608 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1611 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1612 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1613 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1614 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1615 directoried (closes: #41547)
1616 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1617 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1618 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1619 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1620 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1621 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1622 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1623 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1624 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1625 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1626 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1628 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1629 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1630 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1631 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1632 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1633 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1634 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1636 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1637 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1638 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1639 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1641 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1643 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1645 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1646 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1648 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1650 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1653 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1655 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1657 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1660 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1662 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1663 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1664 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1665 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1666 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1667 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1668 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1669 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1670 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1671 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1672 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1673 this closes: Bug#38612
1674 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1675 before. closes: Bug#40864
1677 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1679 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1682 officially uploaded.
1683 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1685 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1686 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1687 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1689 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1690 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1691 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1692 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1693 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1694 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1696 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1697 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1698 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1700 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1702 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1703 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1704 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1705 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1706 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1708 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1710 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1713 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1714 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1715 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1716 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1717 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1718 there). closes: Bug#34233
1719 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1720 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1721 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1722 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1723 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1725 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1727 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1730 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1731 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1732 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1735 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1736 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1737 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1738 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1739 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1742 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1743 number. closes: BUG#25911
1745 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1746 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1747 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1748 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1749 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1750 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1752 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1753 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1754 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1757 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1758 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1759 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1761 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1762 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1763 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1764 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1766 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1767 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1768 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1770 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1772 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1773 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1774 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1775 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1776 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1777 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1778 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1779 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1782 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1784 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1785 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1788 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1790 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1794 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1796 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1799 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1800 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1801 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1802 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1803 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1804 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1805 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1807 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1808 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1810 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1812 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1814 * non-maintainer release
1815 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1816 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1818 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1819 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1820 * no content changes
1821 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1823 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1825 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1829 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1831 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1833 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1835 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1836 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1837 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1839 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1840 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1842 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1843 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1844 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1845 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1847 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1848 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1849 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1850 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1851 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1852 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1853 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1855 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1856 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1857 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1860 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1861 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1862 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1864 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1865 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1866 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1868 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1869 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1871 * New version numbering scheme:
1873 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1874 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1875 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1878 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1879 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1880 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1881 differ between the manuals.
1883 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1884 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1885 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1886 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1888 * Packaging changes:
1890 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1891 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1893 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1895 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1897 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1899 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1901 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1902 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1903 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1905 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1906 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1909 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1910 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1911 file extension as the referenced file
1913 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1914 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1916 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1917 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1918 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1919 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1922 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1923 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1924 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1926 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1927 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1928 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1929 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1932 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1933 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
1936 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
1937 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
1938 reasonable default configuration
1940 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
1941 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
1942 by all news servers and clients
1944 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
1945 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
1946 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
1947 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
1948 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
1950 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1951 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
1954 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
1956 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1957 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
1959 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
1962 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
1963 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
1965 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
1966 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
1968 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1970 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
1972 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1975 - X library package is now called xlib6g
1976 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1977 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
1979 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
1981 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
1982 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
1983 * Don't use debstd anymore
1985 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
1987 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1990 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
1991 contrib/non-free policy
1992 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
1993 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
1994 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
1995 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
1996 - new section about `Daemons'
1997 - updated section about `Configuration files'
1998 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
1999 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2000 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2001 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2002 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2003 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2004 * SGML source code included in package
2005 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2007 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2009 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2012 - completely reworked structure
2013 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2014 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2015 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2016 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2017 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2018 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2019 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2020 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2021 - mention "orphaned packages"
2022 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2023 distributions' policy
2024 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2025 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2026 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2027 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2028 - added section about arch spec strings
2029 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2030 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2031 - added section about "menus"
2032 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2033 the new documentation policy soon
2034 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2035 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2037 - added section about editors and pagers
2038 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2039 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2040 - added section about device files
2041 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2042 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2043 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2045 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2046 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2047 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2048 - Added new section about obsolete names
2049 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2050 * Fixed package's description
2052 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2054 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2056 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2058 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2060 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2062 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2063 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2064 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2065 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2067 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2069 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2071 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2072 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2073 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2075 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2076 and upload it "byhand" too.
2078 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2080 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2084 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2085 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2086 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2087 functionality must not have the same name.
2088 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2089 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2090 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2091 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2092 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2093 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2094 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2096 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2097 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2098 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2099 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2100 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2101 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2102 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2103 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2106 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2108 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2110 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2112 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2113 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2114 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2115 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2116 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2119 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2121 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2123 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2125 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2126 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2127 description of deb file format.
2128 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2129 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2131 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2133 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2134 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2136 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2138 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2140 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2141 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2142 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2143 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2144 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2145 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2146 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2147 packages in section on Procedure
2148 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2149 a package maintainer
2150 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2151 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2152 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2154 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2155 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2156 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2157 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2158 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2159 on various shlib files
2160 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2161 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2162 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2164 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2166 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2168 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2169 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2170 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2172 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2173 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2174 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2175 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2176 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2178 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2180 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2182 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2184 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2186 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2187 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2188 compatibility go in contrib.
2190 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2191 instructions in policy manual.
2192 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2195 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2197 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2199 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2200 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2201 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2202 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2204 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2205 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2208 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2210 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2212 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2213 * More detail about changelog format names.
2215 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2216 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2220 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2222 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2224 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2226 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2228 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2230 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2232 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2234 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2235 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2236 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2238 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2240 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2242 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2244 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2246 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2250 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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