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 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
11 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
12 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
13 * Add Pre-Depends and Build-Depends-Indep to the relationships not
14 allowed from main to contrib or non-free and mention that such
15 relationships are okay if the non-free package is only an
16 alternative. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #587279)
18 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:34:54 -0700
20 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
23 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
26 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
29 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
30 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
31 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
32 and distribution license' (three times).
33 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
34 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
35 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
36 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
37 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
39 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
41 Proposed by Santiago Vila
42 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
43 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
44 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
45 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
49 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
50 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
51 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
52 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
54 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
55 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
56 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
57 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
58 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
59 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
61 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
62 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
63 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
64 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
66 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
67 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
68 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
69 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
70 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
72 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
73 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
74 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
75 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
76 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
78 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
79 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
80 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
81 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
82 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
84 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
85 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
86 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
87 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
89 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
90 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
91 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
92 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
93 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
95 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
96 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
97 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
98 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
100 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
101 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
102 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
103 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
105 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
106 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
107 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
108 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
109 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
111 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
112 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
113 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
114 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
116 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
117 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
118 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
119 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
120 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
122 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
123 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
124 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
125 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
127 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
128 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
129 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
130 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
131 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
132 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
133 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
134 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
135 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
136 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
137 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
138 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
139 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
140 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
141 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
142 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
143 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
144 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
145 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
146 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
147 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
148 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
149 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
150 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
151 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
152 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
153 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
154 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
155 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
156 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
157 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
158 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
160 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
162 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
164 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
167 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
168 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
170 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
171 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
175 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
178 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
179 Wording: Steve Langasek.
180 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
181 Seconded: Julien Cristau
182 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
185 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
186 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
187 Seconded: Russ Allbery
188 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
191 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
192 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
193 Seconded: Russ Allbery
195 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
196 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
197 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
198 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
199 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
200 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
201 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
202 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
203 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
205 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
206 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
207 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
208 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
209 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
210 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
211 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
212 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
213 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
214 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
215 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
216 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
217 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
218 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
219 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
220 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
222 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
223 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
224 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
225 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
226 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
228 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
231 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
232 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
233 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
234 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
235 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
236 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
239 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
241 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
243 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
244 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
245 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
246 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
248 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
249 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
250 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
251 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
253 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
254 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
255 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
256 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
258 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
259 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
260 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
261 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
262 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
263 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
265 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
266 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
267 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
268 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
269 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
271 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
272 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
273 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
274 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
276 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
277 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
278 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
279 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
281 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
282 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
283 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
284 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
286 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
287 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
288 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
289 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
291 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
292 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
293 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
294 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
296 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
297 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
298 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
299 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
300 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
301 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
302 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
303 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
304 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
305 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
306 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
307 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
308 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
309 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
310 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
312 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
313 Source field descriptions.
314 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
315 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
316 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
317 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
318 description says otherwise.
320 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
322 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
325 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
326 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
327 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
328 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
329 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
330 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
332 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
333 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
334 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
335 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
337 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
338 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
339 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
340 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
342 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
343 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
344 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
345 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
347 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
348 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
349 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
350 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
354 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
355 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
356 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
357 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
358 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
360 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
361 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
362 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
363 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
365 * Add myself to Uploaders.
368 * Add myself to Uploaders.
369 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
371 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
372 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
373 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
375 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
377 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
379 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
380 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
381 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
382 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
384 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
385 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
386 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
387 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
389 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
390 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
391 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
392 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
394 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
395 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
396 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
397 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
399 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
400 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
401 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
402 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
404 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
405 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
406 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
407 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
409 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
410 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
411 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
412 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
414 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
415 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
416 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
417 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
419 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
420 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
421 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
422 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
424 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
425 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
426 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
427 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
429 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
430 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
431 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
432 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
433 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
435 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
436 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
437 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
438 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
439 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
440 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
441 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
442 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
443 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
444 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
445 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
446 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
447 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
448 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
449 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
450 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
451 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
452 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
453 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
454 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
455 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
456 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
457 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
458 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
459 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
460 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
461 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
462 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
463 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
464 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
466 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
467 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
468 links was completed long ago.
469 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
471 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
473 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
475 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
476 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
478 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
480 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
482 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
483 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
484 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
485 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
486 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
487 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
488 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
489 Millan (Closes: #209008).
490 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
491 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
493 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
495 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
497 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
498 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
499 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
500 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
501 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
502 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
503 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
505 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
506 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
507 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
508 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
510 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
511 Küster (Closes: #403391).
512 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
513 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
514 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
515 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
516 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
517 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
518 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
519 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
520 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
521 Closes: #186700, #458910
522 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
523 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
524 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
526 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
527 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
528 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
529 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
530 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
531 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
532 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
533 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
535 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
536 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
538 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
539 * Add an md5sums control file.
540 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
541 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
542 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
543 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
544 currently part of policy.
545 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
546 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
547 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
550 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
552 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
554 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
555 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
556 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
557 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
558 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
559 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
560 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
561 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
562 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
563 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
564 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
565 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
566 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
567 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
568 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
569 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
571 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
573 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
574 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
575 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
577 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
578 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
579 list?" (Closes: #412634).
580 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
581 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
582 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
583 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
584 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
585 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
586 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
587 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
588 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
589 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
590 debconf specification.
591 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
592 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
594 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
596 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
598 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
599 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
600 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
601 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
602 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
604 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
606 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
607 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
608 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
609 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
610 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
612 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
613 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
614 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
615 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
616 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
617 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
618 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
619 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
620 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
621 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
622 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
623 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
624 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
625 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
626 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
627 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
629 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
631 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
632 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
633 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
634 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
635 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
636 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
637 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
638 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
640 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
642 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
644 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
645 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
646 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
647 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
648 Polo (Closes: #372497).
649 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
650 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
652 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
653 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
654 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
655 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
656 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
657 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
658 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
659 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
660 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
661 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
663 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
664 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
665 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
666 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
667 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
668 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
670 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
672 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
674 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
675 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
676 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
677 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
679 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
680 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
682 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
684 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
686 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
687 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
688 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
689 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
690 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
691 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
692 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
693 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
694 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
695 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
697 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
698 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
699 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
700 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
701 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
702 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
703 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
704 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
705 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
706 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
707 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
710 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
712 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
714 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
715 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
716 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
717 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
718 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
719 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
720 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
721 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
722 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
723 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
724 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
725 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
726 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
727 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
728 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
729 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
730 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
731 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
732 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
733 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
734 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
735 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
736 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
737 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
738 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
739 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
740 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
741 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
743 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
744 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
745 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
746 Hess (Closes: #362247).
747 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
748 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
749 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
750 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
751 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
752 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
753 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
754 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
755 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
756 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
757 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
758 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
760 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
761 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
763 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
764 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
765 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
766 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
767 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
768 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
769 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
770 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
771 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
772 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
773 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
775 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
777 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
780 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
781 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
782 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
783 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
784 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
785 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
786 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
787 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
788 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
789 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
790 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
791 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
792 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
794 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
795 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
796 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
797 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
798 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
799 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
800 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
801 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
802 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
803 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
804 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
805 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
806 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
807 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
808 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
809 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
810 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
811 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
812 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
815 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
817 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
819 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
820 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
821 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
822 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
824 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
825 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
826 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
827 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
829 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
831 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
834 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
835 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
836 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
837 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
838 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
839 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
840 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
841 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
842 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
843 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
845 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
846 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
847 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
849 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
850 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
851 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
852 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
853 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
854 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
855 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
857 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
858 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
859 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
860 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
862 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
863 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
864 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
865 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
866 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
867 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
868 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
869 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
871 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
872 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
873 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
874 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
875 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
876 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
877 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
878 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
879 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
880 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
881 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
882 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
883 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
884 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
885 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
886 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
887 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
889 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
891 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
894 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
895 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
896 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
897 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
898 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
899 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
900 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
901 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
902 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
904 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
905 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
906 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
907 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
908 this section. closes: Bug#248618
909 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
910 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
911 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
912 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
913 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
914 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
915 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
916 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
917 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
918 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
919 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
920 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
922 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
923 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
924 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
927 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
928 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
929 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
931 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
932 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
933 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
934 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
935 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
936 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
938 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
939 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
941 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
942 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
943 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
944 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
945 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
946 Closes: #185943, #237049
948 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
950 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
953 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
956 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
957 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
958 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
959 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
960 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
961 running. closes: Bug#187250
962 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
963 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
964 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
965 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
966 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
967 user closes: Bug#176506
969 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
971 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
974 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
975 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
976 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
977 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
978 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
979 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
980 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
981 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
982 deb-building toolchain.
983 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
984 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
985 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
986 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
987 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
988 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
989 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
990 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
991 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
992 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
993 sections about changelog files.
995 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
996 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
997 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
998 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
999 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1000 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1002 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1003 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1004 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1005 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1006 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1007 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1008 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1009 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1010 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1011 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1012 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1013 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1014 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1015 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1016 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1017 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1018 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1019 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1020 for the restructuring
1022 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1024 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1029 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1030 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1031 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1032 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1033 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1034 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1036 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1037 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1038 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1039 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1040 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1041 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1042 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1044 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1045 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1046 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1047 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1049 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1051 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1055 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1056 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1057 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1058 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1059 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1061 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1062 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1063 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1064 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1066 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1067 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1068 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1069 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1070 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1071 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1072 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1073 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1074 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1075 offtopic stuff, too.
1076 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1077 script should start it, closes: #60979
1078 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1079 "should", closes: #170019
1080 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1081 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1082 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1083 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1084 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1085 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1086 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1087 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1090 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1092 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1096 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1097 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1098 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1099 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1100 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1101 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1102 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1103 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1105 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1106 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1107 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1108 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1109 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1110 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1111 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1112 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1113 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1115 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1116 file, closes: Bug#65764
1118 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1120 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1122 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1123 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1124 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1125 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1126 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1127 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1128 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1129 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1130 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1131 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1132 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1133 details. closes: Bug#133030
1134 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1135 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1136 parts of Bug#161455.
1138 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1140 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1143 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1144 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1145 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1146 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1147 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1148 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1149 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1150 not. closes: Bug#139820
1151 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1152 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1153 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1154 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1155 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1156 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1157 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1158 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1159 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1160 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1162 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1164 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1165 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1166 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1167 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1168 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1169 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1170 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1171 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1172 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1173 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1174 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1175 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1176 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1177 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1178 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1179 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1180 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1181 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1182 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1183 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1185 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1186 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1187 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1188 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1189 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1190 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1191 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1193 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1194 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1195 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1196 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1197 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1198 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1199 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1200 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1201 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1203 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1205 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1208 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1209 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1210 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1211 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1212 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1213 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1214 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1215 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1216 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1217 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1218 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1219 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1220 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1221 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1222 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1223 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1224 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1225 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1226 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1227 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1228 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1229 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1231 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1233 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1236 medium, high, emergency.
1237 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1238 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1239 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1240 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1241 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1244 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1245 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1246 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1248 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1249 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1250 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1251 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1252 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1253 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1254 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1257 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1259 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1262 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1263 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1264 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1266 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1267 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1268 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1269 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1270 debian/rules to do this
1271 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1272 patches are incorporated upstream
1273 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1274 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1275 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1276 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1277 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1278 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1280 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1281 system closes: Bug#91249
1282 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1283 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1284 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1285 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1286 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1287 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1288 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1289 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1290 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1291 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1292 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1293 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1294 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1296 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1298 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1300 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1301 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1302 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1303 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1305 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1306 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1307 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1309 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1312 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1314 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1317 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1318 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1319 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1320 package for the time being
1321 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1322 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1323 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1324 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1325 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1326 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1327 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1328 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1329 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1330 Build-Depends arch syntax
1331 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1333 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1334 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1336 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1337 from policy maintenance duties.
1338 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1339 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1341 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1343 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1347 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1349 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1352 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1353 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1354 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1355 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1356 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1357 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1358 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1359 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1360 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1361 minor version number for this
1362 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1363 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1364 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1365 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1366 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1367 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1368 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1369 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1370 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1372 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1374 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1377 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1378 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1379 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1380 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1382 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1384 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1385 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1386 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1387 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1388 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1389 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1390 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1391 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1392 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1393 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1394 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1395 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1396 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1397 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1398 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1399 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1402 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1404 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1407 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1409 * Document the Enhances relationship
1410 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1411 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1412 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1413 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1414 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1415 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1417 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1419 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1420 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1421 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1422 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1424 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1425 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1426 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1427 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1428 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1430 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1432 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1435 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1436 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1438 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1439 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1440 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1441 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1442 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1443 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1444 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1445 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1446 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1448 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1450 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1452 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1455 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1456 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1457 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1458 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1459 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1460 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1461 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1462 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1463 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1464 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1465 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1466 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1467 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1468 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1469 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1470 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1471 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1472 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1473 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1474 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1475 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1477 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1478 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1480 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1482 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1485 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1486 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1487 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1488 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1489 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1490 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1491 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1492 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1493 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1494 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1495 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1496 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1497 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1498 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1499 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1500 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1501 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1502 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1503 list closes: Bug#53756
1504 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1505 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1506 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1507 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1508 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1509 policy closes: Bug#53760
1510 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1511 policy closes: Bug#53761
1512 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1513 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1514 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1515 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1516 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1517 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1518 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1519 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1520 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1521 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1522 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1524 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1525 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1526 to install with older fileutils.
1527 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1528 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1529 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1530 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1532 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1533 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1535 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1537 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1539 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1540 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1542 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1544 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1547 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1549 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1552 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1555 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1557 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1559 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1561 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1563 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1564 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1566 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1568 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1570 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1571 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1572 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1573 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1574 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1575 directoried (closes: #41547)
1576 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1577 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1578 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1579 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1580 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1581 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1582 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1583 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1584 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1585 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1586 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1588 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1589 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1590 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1591 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1592 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1593 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1594 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1596 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1597 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1598 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1599 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1601 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1603 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1605 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1606 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1608 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1610 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1613 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1615 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1617 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1620 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1622 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1623 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1624 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1625 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1626 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1627 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1628 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1629 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1630 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1631 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1632 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1633 this closes: Bug#38612
1634 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1635 before. closes: Bug#40864
1637 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1639 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1642 officially uploaded.
1643 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1645 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1646 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1647 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1649 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1650 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1651 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1652 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1653 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1654 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1656 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1657 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1658 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1660 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1662 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1663 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1664 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1665 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1666 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1668 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1670 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1673 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1674 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1675 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1676 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1677 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1678 there). closes: Bug#34233
1679 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1680 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1681 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1682 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1683 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1685 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1687 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1690 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1691 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1692 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1695 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1696 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1697 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1698 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1699 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1702 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1703 number. closes: BUG#25911
1705 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1706 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1707 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1708 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1709 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1710 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1712 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1713 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1714 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1717 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1718 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1719 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1721 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1722 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1723 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1724 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1726 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1727 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1728 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1730 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1732 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1733 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1734 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1735 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1736 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1737 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1738 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1739 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1742 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1744 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1745 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1748 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1750 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1754 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1756 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1759 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1760 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1761 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1762 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1763 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1764 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1765 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1767 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1768 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1770 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1772 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1774 * non-maintainer release
1775 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1776 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1778 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1779 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1780 * no content changes
1781 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1783 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1785 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1789 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1791 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1793 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1795 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1796 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1797 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1799 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1800 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1802 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1803 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1804 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1805 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1807 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1808 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1809 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1810 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1811 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1812 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1813 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1815 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1816 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1817 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1820 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1821 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1822 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1824 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1825 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1826 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1828 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1829 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1831 * New version numbering scheme:
1833 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1834 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1835 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1838 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1839 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1840 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1841 differ between the manuals.
1843 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1844 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1845 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1846 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1848 * Packaging changes:
1850 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1851 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1853 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1855 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1857 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1861 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1862 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1863 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1865 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1866 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1869 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1870 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1871 file extension as the referenced file
1873 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1874 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1876 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1877 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1878 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1879 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1882 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1883 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1884 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1886 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1887 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1888 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1889 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1892 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1893 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
1896 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
1897 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
1898 reasonable default configuration
1900 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
1901 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
1902 by all news servers and clients
1904 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
1905 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
1906 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
1907 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
1908 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
1910 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1911 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
1914 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
1916 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1917 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
1919 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
1922 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
1923 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
1925 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
1926 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
1928 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1930 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
1932 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1935 - X library package is now called xlib6g
1936 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1937 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
1939 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
1941 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
1942 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
1943 * Don't use debstd anymore
1945 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
1947 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1950 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
1951 contrib/non-free policy
1952 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
1953 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
1954 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
1955 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
1956 - new section about `Daemons'
1957 - updated section about `Configuration files'
1958 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
1959 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
1960 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1961 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
1962 * Paper about libc6 migration:
1963 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
1964 * SGML source code included in package
1965 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
1967 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
1969 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1972 - completely reworked structure
1973 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
1974 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
1975 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
1976 - removed all those ugly footnotes
1977 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
1978 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
1979 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
1980 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
1981 - mention "orphaned packages"
1982 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
1983 distributions' policy
1984 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
1985 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
1986 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
1987 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
1988 - added section about arch spec strings
1989 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
1990 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
1991 - added section about "menus"
1992 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
1993 the new documentation policy soon
1994 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
1995 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
1997 - added section about editors and pagers
1998 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
1999 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2000 - added section about device files
2001 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2002 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2003 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2005 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2006 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2007 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2008 - Added new section about obsolete names
2009 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2010 * Fixed package's description
2012 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2014 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2016 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2018 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2020 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2022 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2023 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2024 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2025 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2027 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2029 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2031 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2032 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2033 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2035 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2036 and upload it "byhand" too.
2038 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2040 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2044 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2045 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2046 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2047 functionality must not have the same name.
2048 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2049 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2050 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2051 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2052 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2053 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2054 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2056 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2057 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2058 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2059 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2060 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2061 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2062 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2063 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2066 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2068 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2070 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2072 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2073 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2074 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2075 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2076 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2079 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2081 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2083 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2085 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2086 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2087 description of deb file format.
2088 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2089 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2091 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2093 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2094 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2096 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2098 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2100 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2101 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2102 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2103 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2104 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2105 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2106 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2107 packages in section on Procedure
2108 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2109 a package maintainer
2110 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2111 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2112 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2114 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2115 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2116 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2117 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2118 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2119 on various shlib files
2120 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2121 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2122 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2124 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2126 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2128 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2129 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2130 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2132 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2133 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2134 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2135 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2136 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2138 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2140 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2142 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2144 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2146 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2147 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2148 compatibility go in contrib.
2150 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2151 instructions in policy manual.
2152 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2155 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2157 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2159 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2160 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2161 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2162 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2164 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2165 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2168 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2170 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2172 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2173 * More detail about changelog format names.
2175 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2176 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2180 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2182 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2184 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2186 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2188 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2190 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2192 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2194 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2195 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2196 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2198 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2200 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2202 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2204 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2206 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2210 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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