1 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
4 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
5 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
7 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
9 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
10 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
11 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
12 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
14 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
15 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
16 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
17 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
19 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
20 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
21 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
22 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
23 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
24 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
25 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
26 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
27 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
29 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
30 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
31 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
32 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
34 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
35 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
36 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
37 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
39 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
41 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
42 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
43 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
44 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
45 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
46 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
48 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:34:54 -0700
50 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
53 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
56 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
59 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
60 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
61 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
62 and distribution license' (three times).
63 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
64 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
65 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
66 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
67 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
69 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
71 Proposed by Santiago Vila
72 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
73 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
74 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
75 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
79 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
80 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
81 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
82 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
84 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
85 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
86 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
87 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
88 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
89 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
91 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
92 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
93 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
94 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
96 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
97 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
98 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
99 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
100 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
102 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
103 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
104 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
105 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
106 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
108 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
109 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
110 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
111 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
112 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
114 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
115 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
116 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
117 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
119 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
120 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
121 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
122 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
123 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
125 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
126 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
127 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
128 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
130 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
131 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
132 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
133 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
135 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
136 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
137 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
138 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
139 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
141 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
142 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
143 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
144 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
146 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
147 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
148 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
149 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
150 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
152 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
153 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
154 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
155 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
157 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
158 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
159 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
160 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
161 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
162 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
163 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
164 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
165 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
166 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
167 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
168 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
169 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
170 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
171 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
172 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
173 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
174 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
175 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
176 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
177 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
178 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
179 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
180 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
181 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
182 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
183 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
184 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
185 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
186 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
187 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
188 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
190 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
192 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
194 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
197 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
198 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
200 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
201 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
205 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
208 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
209 Wording: Steve Langasek.
210 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
211 Seconded: Julien Cristau
212 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
215 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
216 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
217 Seconded: Russ Allbery
218 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
221 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
222 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
223 Seconded: Russ Allbery
225 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
226 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
227 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
228 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
229 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
230 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
231 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
232 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
233 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
235 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
236 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
237 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
238 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
239 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
240 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
241 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
242 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
243 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
244 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
245 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
246 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
247 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
248 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
249 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
250 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
252 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
253 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
254 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
255 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
256 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
258 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
261 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
262 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
263 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
264 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
265 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
266 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
269 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
271 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
273 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
274 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
275 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
276 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
278 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
279 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
280 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
281 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
283 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
284 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
285 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
286 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
288 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
289 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
290 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
291 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
292 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
293 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
295 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
296 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
297 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
298 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
299 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
301 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
302 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
303 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
304 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
306 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
307 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
308 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
309 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
311 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
312 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
313 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
314 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
316 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
317 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
318 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
319 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
321 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
322 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
323 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
324 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
326 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
327 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
328 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
329 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
330 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
331 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
332 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
333 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
334 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
335 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
336 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
337 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
338 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
339 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
340 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
342 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
343 Source field descriptions.
344 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
345 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
346 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
347 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
348 description says otherwise.
350 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
352 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
355 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
356 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
357 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
358 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
359 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
360 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
362 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
363 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
364 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
365 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
367 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
368 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
369 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
370 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
372 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
373 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
374 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
375 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
377 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
378 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
379 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
380 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
384 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
385 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
386 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
387 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
388 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
390 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
391 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
392 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
393 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
395 * Add myself to Uploaders.
398 * Add myself to Uploaders.
399 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
401 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
402 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
403 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
405 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
407 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
409 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
410 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
411 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
412 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
414 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
415 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
416 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
417 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
419 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
420 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
421 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
422 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
424 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
425 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
426 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
427 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
429 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
430 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
431 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
432 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
434 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
435 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
436 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
437 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
439 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
440 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
441 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
442 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
444 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
445 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
446 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
447 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
449 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
450 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
451 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
452 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
454 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
455 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
456 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
457 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
459 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
460 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
461 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
462 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
463 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
465 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
466 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
467 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
468 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
469 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
470 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
471 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
472 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
473 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
474 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
475 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
476 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
477 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
478 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
479 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
480 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
481 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
482 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
483 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
484 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
485 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
486 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
487 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
488 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
489 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
490 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
491 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
492 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
493 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
494 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
496 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
497 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
498 links was completed long ago.
499 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
501 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
503 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
505 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
506 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
508 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
510 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
512 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
513 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
514 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
515 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
516 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
517 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
518 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
519 Millan (Closes: #209008).
520 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
521 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
523 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
525 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
527 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
528 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
529 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
530 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
531 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
532 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
533 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
535 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
536 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
537 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
538 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
540 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
541 Küster (Closes: #403391).
542 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
543 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
544 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
545 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
546 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
547 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
548 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
549 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
550 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
551 Closes: #186700, #458910
552 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
553 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
554 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
556 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
557 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
558 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
559 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
560 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
561 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
562 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
563 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
565 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
566 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
568 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
569 * Add an md5sums control file.
570 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
571 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
572 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
573 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
574 currently part of policy.
575 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
576 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
577 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
580 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
582 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
584 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
585 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
586 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
587 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
588 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
589 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
590 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
591 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
592 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
593 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
594 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
595 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
596 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
597 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
598 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
599 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
601 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
603 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
604 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
605 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
607 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
608 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
609 list?" (Closes: #412634).
610 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
611 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
612 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
613 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
614 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
615 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
616 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
617 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
618 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
619 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
620 debconf specification.
621 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
622 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
624 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
626 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
628 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
629 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
630 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
631 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
632 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
634 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
636 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
637 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
638 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
639 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
640 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
642 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
643 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
644 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
645 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
646 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
647 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
648 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
649 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
650 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
651 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
652 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
653 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
654 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
655 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
656 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
657 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
659 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
661 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
662 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
663 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
664 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
665 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
666 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
667 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
668 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
670 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
672 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
674 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
675 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
676 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
677 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
678 Polo (Closes: #372497).
679 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
680 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
682 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
683 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
684 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
685 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
686 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
687 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
688 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
689 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
690 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
691 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
693 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
694 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
695 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
696 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
697 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
698 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
700 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
702 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
704 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
705 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
706 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
707 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
709 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
710 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
712 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
714 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
716 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
717 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
718 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
719 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
720 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
721 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
722 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
723 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
724 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
725 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
727 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
728 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
729 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
730 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
731 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
732 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
733 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
734 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
735 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
736 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
737 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
740 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
742 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
744 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
745 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
746 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
747 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
748 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
749 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
750 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
751 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
752 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
753 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
754 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
755 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
756 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
757 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
758 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
759 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
760 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
761 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
762 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
763 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
764 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
765 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
766 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
767 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
768 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
769 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
770 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
771 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
773 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
774 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
775 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
776 Hess (Closes: #362247).
777 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
778 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
779 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
780 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
781 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
782 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
783 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
784 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
785 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
786 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
787 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
788 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
790 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
791 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
793 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
794 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
795 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
796 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
797 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
798 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
799 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
800 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
801 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
802 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
803 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
805 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
807 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
810 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
811 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
812 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
813 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
814 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
815 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
816 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
817 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
818 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
819 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
820 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
821 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
822 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
824 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
825 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
826 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
827 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
828 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
829 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
830 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
831 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
832 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
833 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
834 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
835 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
836 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
837 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
838 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
839 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
840 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
841 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
842 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
845 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
847 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
849 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
850 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
851 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
852 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
854 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
855 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
856 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
857 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
859 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
861 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
864 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
865 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
866 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
867 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
868 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
869 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
870 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
871 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
872 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
873 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
875 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
876 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
877 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
879 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
880 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
881 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
882 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
883 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
884 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
885 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
887 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
888 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
889 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
890 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
892 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
893 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
894 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
895 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
896 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
897 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
898 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
899 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
901 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
902 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
903 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
904 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
905 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
906 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
907 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
908 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
909 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
910 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
911 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
912 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
913 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
914 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
915 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
916 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
917 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
919 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
921 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
924 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
925 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
926 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
927 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
928 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
929 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
930 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
931 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
932 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
934 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
935 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
936 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
937 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
938 this section. closes: Bug#248618
939 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
940 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
941 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
942 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
943 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
944 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
945 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
946 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
947 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
948 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
949 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
950 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
952 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
953 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
954 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
957 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
958 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
959 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
961 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
962 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
963 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
964 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
965 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
966 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
968 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
969 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
971 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
972 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
973 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
974 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
975 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
976 Closes: #185943, #237049
978 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
980 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
983 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
986 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
987 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
988 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
989 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
990 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
991 running. closes: Bug#187250
992 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
993 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
994 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
995 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
996 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
997 user closes: Bug#176506
999 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1001 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1005 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1006 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1007 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1008 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1009 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1010 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1011 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1012 deb-building toolchain.
1013 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1014 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1015 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1016 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1017 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1018 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1019 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1020 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1021 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1022 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1023 sections about changelog files.
1025 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1026 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1027 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1028 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1029 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1030 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1032 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1033 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1034 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1035 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1036 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1037 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1038 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1039 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1040 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1041 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1042 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1043 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1044 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1045 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1046 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1047 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1048 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1049 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1050 for the restructuring
1052 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1054 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1059 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1060 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1061 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1062 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1063 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1064 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1066 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1067 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1068 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1069 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1070 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1071 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1072 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1074 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1075 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1076 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1077 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1079 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1081 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1085 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1086 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1087 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1088 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1089 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1091 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1092 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1093 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1094 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1096 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1097 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1098 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1099 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1100 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1101 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1102 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1103 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1104 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1105 offtopic stuff, too.
1106 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1107 script should start it, closes: #60979
1108 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1109 "should", closes: #170019
1110 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1111 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1112 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1113 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1114 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1115 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1116 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1117 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1120 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1122 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1126 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1127 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1128 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1129 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1130 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1131 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1132 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1133 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1135 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1136 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1137 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1138 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1139 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1140 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1141 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1142 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1143 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1145 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1146 file, closes: Bug#65764
1148 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1150 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1153 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1154 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1155 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1156 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1157 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1158 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1159 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1160 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1161 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1162 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1163 details. closes: Bug#133030
1164 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1165 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1166 parts of Bug#161455.
1168 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1170 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1172 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1173 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1174 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1175 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1176 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1177 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1178 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1179 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1180 not. closes: Bug#139820
1181 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1182 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1183 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1184 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1185 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1186 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1187 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1188 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1189 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1190 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1192 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1194 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1195 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1196 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1197 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1198 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1199 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1200 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1201 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1202 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1203 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1204 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1205 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1206 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1207 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1208 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1209 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1210 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1211 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1212 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1213 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1215 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1216 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1217 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1218 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1219 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1220 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1221 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1223 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1224 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1225 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1226 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1227 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1228 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1229 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1230 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1231 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1233 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1235 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1237 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1238 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1239 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1240 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1241 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1242 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1243 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1244 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1245 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1246 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1247 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1248 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1249 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1250 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1251 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1252 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1253 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1254 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1255 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1256 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1257 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1258 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1259 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1261 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1263 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1265 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1266 medium, high, emergency.
1267 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1268 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1269 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1270 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1271 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1274 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1275 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1276 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1278 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1279 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1280 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1281 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1282 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1283 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1284 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1287 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1289 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1292 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1293 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1294 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1296 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1297 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1298 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1299 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1300 debian/rules to do this
1301 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1302 patches are incorporated upstream
1303 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1304 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1305 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1306 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1307 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1308 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1310 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1311 system closes: Bug#91249
1312 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1313 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1314 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1315 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1316 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1317 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1318 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1319 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1320 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1321 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1322 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1323 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1324 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1326 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1328 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1331 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1332 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1333 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1335 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1336 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1337 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1339 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1342 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1344 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1347 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1348 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1349 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1350 package for the time being
1351 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1352 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1353 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1354 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1355 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1356 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1357 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1358 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1359 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1360 Build-Depends arch syntax
1361 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1363 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1364 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1366 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1367 from policy maintenance duties.
1368 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1369 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1371 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1373 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1377 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1379 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1381 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1382 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1383 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1384 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1385 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1386 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1387 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1388 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1389 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1390 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1391 minor version number for this
1392 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1393 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1394 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1395 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1396 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1397 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1398 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1399 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1400 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1402 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1404 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1407 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1408 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1409 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1410 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1412 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1414 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1415 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1416 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1417 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1418 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1419 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1420 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1421 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1422 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1423 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1424 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1425 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1426 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1427 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1428 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1429 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1432 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1434 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1437 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1439 * Document the Enhances relationship
1440 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1441 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1442 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1443 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1444 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1445 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1447 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1449 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1450 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1451 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1452 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1454 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1455 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1456 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1457 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1458 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1460 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1462 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1465 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1466 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1468 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1469 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1470 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1471 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1472 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1473 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1474 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1475 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1476 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1478 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1480 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1482 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1485 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1486 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1487 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1488 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1489 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1490 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1491 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1492 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1493 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1494 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1495 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1496 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1497 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1498 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1499 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1500 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1501 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1502 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1503 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1504 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1505 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1507 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1508 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1510 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1512 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1515 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1516 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1517 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1518 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1519 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1520 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1521 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1522 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1523 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1524 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1525 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1526 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1527 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1528 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1529 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1530 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1531 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1532 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1533 list closes: Bug#53756
1534 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1535 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1536 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1537 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1538 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1539 policy closes: Bug#53760
1540 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1541 policy closes: Bug#53761
1542 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1543 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1544 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1545 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1546 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1547 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1548 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1549 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1550 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1551 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1552 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1554 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1555 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1556 to install with older fileutils.
1557 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1558 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1559 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1560 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1562 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1563 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1565 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1567 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1570 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1572 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1574 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1576 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1577 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1579 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1582 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1585 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1587 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1589 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1591 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1593 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1594 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1596 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1598 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1600 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1601 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1602 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1603 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1604 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1605 directoried (closes: #41547)
1606 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1607 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1608 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1609 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1610 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1611 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1612 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1613 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1614 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1615 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1616 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1618 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1619 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1620 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1621 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1622 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1623 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1624 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1626 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1627 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1628 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1629 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1631 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1633 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1635 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1636 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1638 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1640 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1643 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1645 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1647 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1650 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1652 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1653 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1654 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1655 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1656 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1657 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1658 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1659 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1660 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1661 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1662 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1663 this closes: Bug#38612
1664 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1665 before. closes: Bug#40864
1667 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1669 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1672 officially uploaded.
1673 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1675 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1676 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1677 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1679 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1680 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1681 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1682 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1683 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1684 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1686 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1687 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1688 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1690 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1692 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1693 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1694 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1695 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1696 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1698 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1700 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1703 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1704 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1705 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1706 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1707 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1708 there). closes: Bug#34233
1709 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1710 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1711 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1712 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1713 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1715 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1717 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1720 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1721 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1722 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1725 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1726 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1727 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1728 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1729 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1732 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1733 number. closes: BUG#25911
1735 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1736 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1737 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1738 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1739 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1740 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1742 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1743 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1744 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1747 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1748 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1749 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1751 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1752 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1753 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1754 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1756 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1757 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1758 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1760 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1762 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1763 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1764 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1765 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1766 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1767 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1768 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1769 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1772 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1774 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1775 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1778 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1780 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1784 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1786 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1789 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1790 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1791 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1792 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1793 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1794 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1795 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1797 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1798 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1800 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1802 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1804 * non-maintainer release
1805 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1806 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1808 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1809 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1810 * no content changes
1811 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1813 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1815 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1819 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1821 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1823 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1825 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1826 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1827 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1829 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1830 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1832 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1833 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1834 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1835 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1837 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1838 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1839 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1840 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1841 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1842 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1843 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1845 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1846 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1847 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1850 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1851 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1852 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1854 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1855 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1856 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1858 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1859 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1861 * New version numbering scheme:
1863 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1864 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1865 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1868 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1869 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1870 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1871 differ between the manuals.
1873 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1874 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1875 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1876 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1878 * Packaging changes:
1880 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1881 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1883 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1885 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1887 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1891 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1892 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1893 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1895 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1896 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1899 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1900 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1901 file extension as the referenced file
1903 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1904 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1906 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1907 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1908 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1909 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1912 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1913 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1914 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1916 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1917 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1918 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1919 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1922 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1923 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
1926 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
1927 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
1928 reasonable default configuration
1930 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
1931 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
1932 by all news servers and clients
1934 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
1935 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
1936 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
1937 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
1938 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
1940 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1941 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
1944 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
1946 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1947 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
1949 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
1952 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
1953 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
1955 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
1956 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
1958 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1960 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
1962 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1965 - X library package is now called xlib6g
1966 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1967 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
1969 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
1971 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
1972 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
1973 * Don't use debstd anymore
1975 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
1977 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1980 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
1981 contrib/non-free policy
1982 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
1983 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
1984 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
1985 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
1986 - new section about `Daemons'
1987 - updated section about `Configuration files'
1988 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
1989 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
1990 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1991 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
1992 * Paper about libc6 migration:
1993 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
1994 * SGML source code included in package
1995 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
1997 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
1999 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2002 - completely reworked structure
2003 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2004 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2005 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2006 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2007 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2008 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2009 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2010 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2011 - mention "orphaned packages"
2012 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2013 distributions' policy
2014 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2015 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2016 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2017 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2018 - added section about arch spec strings
2019 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2020 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2021 - added section about "menus"
2022 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2023 the new documentation policy soon
2024 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2025 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2027 - added section about editors and pagers
2028 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2029 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2030 - added section about device files
2031 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2032 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2033 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2035 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2036 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2037 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2038 - Added new section about obsolete names
2039 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2040 * Fixed package's description
2042 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2044 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2046 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2048 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2050 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2052 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2053 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2054 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2055 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2057 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2059 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2061 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2062 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2063 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2065 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2066 and upload it "byhand" too.
2068 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2070 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2074 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2075 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2076 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2077 functionality must not have the same name.
2078 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2079 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2080 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2081 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2082 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2083 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2084 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2086 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2087 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2088 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2089 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2090 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2091 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2092 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2093 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2096 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2098 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2100 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2102 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2103 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2104 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2105 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2106 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2109 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2111 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2113 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2115 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2116 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2117 description of deb file format.
2118 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2119 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2121 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2123 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2124 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2126 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2128 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2130 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2131 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2132 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2133 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2134 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2135 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2136 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2137 packages in section on Procedure
2138 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2139 a package maintainer
2140 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2141 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2142 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2144 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2145 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2146 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2147 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2148 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2149 on various shlib files
2150 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2151 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2152 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2154 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2156 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2158 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2159 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2160 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2162 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2163 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2164 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2165 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2166 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2168 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2170 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2172 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2174 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2176 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2177 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2178 compatibility go in contrib.
2180 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2181 instructions in policy manual.
2182 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2185 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2187 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2189 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2190 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2191 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2192 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2194 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2195 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2198 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2200 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2202 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2203 * More detail about changelog format names.
2205 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2206 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2210 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2212 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2214 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2216 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2218 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2220 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2222 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2224 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2225 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2226 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2228 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2230 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2232 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2234 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2236 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2240 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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