1 debian-policy (3.8.3.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
5 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
9 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
12 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
13 Wording: Steve Langasek.
14 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
15 Seconded: Julien Cristau
19 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:00:18 -0500
21 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
23 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
24 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
25 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
26 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
28 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
29 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
30 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
31 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
33 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
34 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
35 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
36 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
38 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
39 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
40 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
41 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
42 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
43 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
45 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
46 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
47 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
48 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
49 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
51 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
52 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
53 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
54 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
56 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
57 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
58 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
59 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
61 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
62 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
63 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
64 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
66 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
67 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
68 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
69 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
71 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
72 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
73 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
74 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
76 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
77 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
78 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
79 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
80 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
81 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
82 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
83 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
84 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
85 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
86 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
87 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
88 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
89 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
90 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
92 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
93 Source field descriptions.
94 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
95 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
96 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
97 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
98 description says otherwise.
100 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
102 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
105 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
106 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
107 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
108 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
109 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
110 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
112 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
113 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
114 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
115 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
117 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
118 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
119 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
120 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
122 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
123 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
124 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
125 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
127 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
128 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
129 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
130 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
134 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
135 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
136 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
137 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
138 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
140 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
141 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
142 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
143 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
145 * Add myself to Uploaders.
148 * Add myself to Uploaders.
149 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
151 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
152 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
153 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
155 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
157 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
159 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
160 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
161 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
162 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
164 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
165 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
166 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
167 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
169 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
170 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
171 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
172 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
174 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
175 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
176 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
177 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
179 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
180 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
181 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
182 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
184 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
185 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
186 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
187 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
189 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
190 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
191 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
192 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
194 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
195 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
196 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
197 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
199 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
200 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
201 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
202 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
204 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
205 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
206 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
207 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
209 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
210 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
211 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
212 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
213 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
215 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
216 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
217 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
218 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
219 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
220 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
221 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
222 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
223 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
224 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
225 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
226 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
227 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
228 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
229 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
230 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
231 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
232 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
233 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
234 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
235 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
236 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
237 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
238 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
239 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
240 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
241 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
242 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
243 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
244 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
246 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
247 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
248 links was completed long ago.
249 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
251 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
253 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
255 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
256 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
258 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
260 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
262 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
263 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
264 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
265 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
266 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
267 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
268 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
269 Millan (Closes: #209008).
270 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
271 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
273 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
275 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
277 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
278 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
279 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
280 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
281 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
282 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
283 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
285 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
286 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
287 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
288 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
290 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
291 Küster (Closes: #403391).
292 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
293 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
294 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
295 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
296 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
297 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
298 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
299 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
300 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
301 Closes: #186700, #458910
302 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
303 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
304 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
306 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
307 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
308 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
309 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
310 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
311 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
312 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
313 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
315 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
316 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
318 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
319 * Add an md5sums control file.
320 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
321 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
322 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
323 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
324 currently part of policy.
325 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
326 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
327 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
330 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
332 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
334 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
335 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
336 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
337 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
338 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
339 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
340 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
341 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
342 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
343 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
344 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
345 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
346 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
347 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
348 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
349 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
351 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
353 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
354 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
355 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
357 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
358 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
359 list?" (Closes: #412634).
360 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
361 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
362 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
363 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
364 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
365 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
366 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
367 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
368 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
369 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
370 debconf specification.
371 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
372 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
374 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
376 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
378 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
379 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
380 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
381 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
382 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
384 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
386 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
387 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
388 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
389 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
390 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
392 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
393 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
394 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
395 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
396 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
397 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
398 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
399 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
400 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
401 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
402 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
403 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
404 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
405 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
406 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
407 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
409 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
411 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
412 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
413 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
414 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
415 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
416 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
417 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
418 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
420 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
422 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
424 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
425 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
426 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
427 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
428 Polo (Closes: #372497).
429 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
430 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
432 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
433 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
434 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
435 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
436 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
437 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
438 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
439 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
440 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
441 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
443 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
444 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
445 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
446 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
447 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
448 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
450 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
452 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
454 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
455 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
456 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
457 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
459 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
460 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
462 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
464 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
466 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
467 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
468 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
469 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
470 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
471 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
472 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
473 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
474 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
475 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
477 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
478 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
479 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
480 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
481 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
482 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
483 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
484 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
485 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
486 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
487 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
490 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
492 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
494 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
495 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
496 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
497 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
498 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
499 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
500 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
501 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
502 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
503 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
504 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
505 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
506 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
507 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
508 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
509 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
510 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
511 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
512 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
513 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
514 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
515 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
516 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
517 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
518 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
519 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
520 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
521 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
523 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
524 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
525 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
526 Hess (Closes: #362247).
527 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
528 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
529 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
530 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
531 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
532 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
533 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
534 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
535 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
536 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
537 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
538 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
540 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
541 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
543 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
544 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
545 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
546 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
547 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
548 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
549 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
550 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
551 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
552 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
553 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
555 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
557 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
560 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
561 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
562 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
563 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
564 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
565 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
566 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
567 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
568 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
569 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
570 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
571 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
572 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
574 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
575 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
576 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
577 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
578 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
579 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
580 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
581 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
582 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
583 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
584 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
585 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
586 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
587 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
588 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
589 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
590 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
591 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
592 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
595 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
597 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
599 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
600 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
601 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
602 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
604 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
605 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
606 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
607 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
609 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
611 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
614 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
615 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
616 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
617 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
618 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
619 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
620 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
621 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
622 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
623 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
625 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
626 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
627 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
629 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
630 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
631 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
632 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
633 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
634 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
635 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
637 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
638 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
639 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
640 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
642 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
643 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
644 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
645 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
646 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
647 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
648 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
649 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
651 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
652 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
653 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
654 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
655 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
656 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
657 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
658 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
659 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
660 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
661 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
662 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
663 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
664 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
665 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
666 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
667 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
669 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
671 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
674 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
675 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
676 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
677 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
678 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
679 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
680 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
681 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
682 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
684 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
685 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
686 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
687 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
688 this section. closes: Bug#248618
689 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
690 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
691 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
692 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
693 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
694 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
695 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
696 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
697 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
698 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
699 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
700 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
702 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
703 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
704 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
707 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
708 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
709 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
711 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
712 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
713 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
714 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
715 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
716 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
718 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
719 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
721 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
722 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
723 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
724 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
725 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
726 Closes: #185943, #237049
728 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
730 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
733 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
736 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
737 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
738 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
739 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
740 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
741 running. closes: Bug#187250
742 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
743 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
744 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
745 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
746 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
747 user closes: Bug#176506
749 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
751 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
754 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
755 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
756 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
757 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
758 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
759 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
760 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
761 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
762 deb-building toolchain.
763 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
764 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
765 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
766 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
767 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
768 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
769 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
770 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
771 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
772 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
773 sections about changelog files.
775 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
776 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
777 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
778 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
779 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
780 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
782 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
783 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
784 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
785 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
786 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
787 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
788 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
789 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
790 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
791 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
792 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
793 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
794 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
795 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
796 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
797 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
798 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
799 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
800 for the restructuring
802 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
804 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
807 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
809 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
810 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
811 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
812 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
813 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
814 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
816 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
817 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
818 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
819 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
820 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
821 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
822 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
824 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
825 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
826 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
827 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
829 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
831 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
834 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
835 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
836 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
837 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
838 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
839 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
841 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
842 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
843 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
844 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
846 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
847 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
848 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
849 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
850 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
851 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
852 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
853 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
854 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
856 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
857 script should start it, closes: #60979
858 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
859 "should", closes: #170019
860 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
861 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
862 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
863 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
864 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
865 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
866 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
867 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
870 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
872 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
875 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
876 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
877 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
878 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
879 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
880 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
881 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
882 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
883 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
885 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
886 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
887 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
888 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
889 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
890 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
891 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
892 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
893 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
895 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
896 file, closes: Bug#65764
898 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
900 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
902 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
903 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
904 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
905 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
906 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
907 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
908 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
909 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
910 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
911 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
912 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
913 details. closes: Bug#133030
914 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
915 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
918 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
920 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
922 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
923 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
924 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
925 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
926 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
927 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
928 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
929 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
930 not. closes: Bug#139820
931 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
932 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
933 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
934 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
935 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
936 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
937 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
938 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
939 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
940 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
942 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
944 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
945 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
946 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
947 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
948 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
949 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
950 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
951 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
952 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
953 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
954 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
955 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
956 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
957 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
958 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
959 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
960 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
961 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
962 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
963 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
965 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
966 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
967 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
968 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
969 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
970 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
971 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
973 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
974 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
975 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
976 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
977 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
978 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
979 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
980 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
981 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
983 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
985 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
987 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
988 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
989 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
990 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
991 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
992 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
993 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
994 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
995 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
996 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
997 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
998 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
999 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1000 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1001 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1002 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1003 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1004 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1005 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1006 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1007 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1008 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1009 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1011 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1013 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1015 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1016 medium, high, emergency.
1017 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1018 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1019 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1020 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1021 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1024 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1025 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1026 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1028 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1029 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1030 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1031 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1032 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1033 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1034 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1037 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1039 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1041 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1042 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1043 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1044 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1046 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1047 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1048 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1049 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1050 debian/rules to do this
1051 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1052 patches are incorporated upstream
1053 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1054 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1055 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1056 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1057 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1058 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1060 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1061 system closes: Bug#91249
1062 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1063 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1064 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1065 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1066 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1067 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1068 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1069 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1070 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1071 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1072 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1073 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1074 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1076 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1078 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1080 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1081 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1082 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1083 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1085 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1086 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1087 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1089 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1092 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1094 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1096 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1097 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1098 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1099 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1100 package for the time being
1101 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1102 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1103 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1104 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1105 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1106 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1107 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1108 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1109 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1110 Build-Depends arch syntax
1111 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1113 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1114 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1116 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1117 from policy maintenance duties.
1118 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1119 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1121 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1123 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1127 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1129 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1132 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1133 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1134 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1135 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1136 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1137 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1138 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1139 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1140 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1141 minor version number for this
1142 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1143 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1144 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1145 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1146 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1147 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1148 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1149 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1150 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1152 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1154 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1157 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1158 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1159 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1160 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1162 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1164 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1165 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1166 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1167 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1168 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1169 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1170 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1171 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1172 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1173 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1174 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1175 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1176 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1177 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1178 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1179 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1182 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1184 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1187 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1189 * Document the Enhances relationship
1190 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1191 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1192 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1193 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1194 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1195 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1197 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1199 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1200 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1201 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1202 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1204 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1205 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1206 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1207 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1208 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1210 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1212 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1214 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1215 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1216 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1218 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1219 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1220 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1221 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1222 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1223 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1224 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1225 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1226 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1228 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1230 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1232 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1235 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1236 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1237 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1238 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1239 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1240 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1241 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1242 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1243 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1244 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1245 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1246 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1247 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1248 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1249 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1250 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1251 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1252 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1253 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1254 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1255 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1257 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1258 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1260 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1262 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1265 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1266 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1267 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1268 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1269 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1270 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1271 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1272 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1273 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1274 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1275 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1276 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1277 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1278 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1279 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1280 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1281 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1282 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1283 list closes: Bug#53756
1284 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1285 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1286 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1287 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1288 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1289 policy closes: Bug#53760
1290 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1291 policy closes: Bug#53761
1292 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1293 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1294 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1295 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1296 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1297 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1298 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1299 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1300 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1301 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1302 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1304 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1305 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1306 to install with older fileutils.
1307 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1308 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1309 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1310 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1312 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1313 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1315 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1317 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1320 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1322 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1324 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1327 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1329 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1332 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1334 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1335 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1337 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1339 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1341 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1344 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1346 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1348 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1350 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1351 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1352 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1353 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1354 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1355 directoried (closes: #41547)
1356 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1357 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1358 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1359 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1360 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1361 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1362 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1363 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1364 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1365 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1366 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1368 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1369 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1370 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1371 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1372 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1373 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1374 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1376 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1377 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1378 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1379 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1381 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1383 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1385 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1386 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1388 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1390 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1393 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1395 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1397 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1400 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1402 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1403 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1404 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1405 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1406 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1407 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1408 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1409 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1410 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1411 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1412 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1413 this closes: Bug#38612
1414 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1415 before. closes: Bug#40864
1417 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1419 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1421 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1422 officially uploaded.
1423 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1425 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1426 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1427 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1429 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1430 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1431 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1432 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1433 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1434 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1436 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1437 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1438 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1440 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1442 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1443 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1444 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1445 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1446 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1448 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1450 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1453 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1454 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1455 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1456 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1457 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1458 there). closes: Bug#34233
1459 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1460 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1461 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1462 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1463 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1465 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1467 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1470 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1471 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1472 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1475 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1476 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1477 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1478 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1479 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1482 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1483 number. closes: BUG#25911
1485 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1486 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1487 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1488 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1489 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1490 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1492 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1493 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1494 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1497 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1498 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1499 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1501 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1502 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1503 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1504 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1506 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1507 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1508 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1510 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1512 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1513 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1514 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1515 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1516 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1517 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1518 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1519 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1522 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1524 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1525 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1528 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1530 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1532 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1534 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1536 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1539 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1540 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1541 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1542 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1543 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1544 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1545 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1547 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1548 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1550 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1552 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1554 * non-maintainer release
1555 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1556 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1558 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1559 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1560 * no content changes
1561 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1563 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1565 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1569 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1571 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1573 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1575 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1576 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1577 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1579 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1580 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1582 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1583 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1584 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1585 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1587 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1588 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1589 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1590 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1591 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1592 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1593 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1595 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1596 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1597 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1600 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1601 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1602 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1604 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1605 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1606 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1608 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1609 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1611 * New version numbering scheme:
1613 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1614 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1615 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1618 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1619 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1620 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1621 differ between the manuals.
1623 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1624 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1625 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1626 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1628 * Packaging changes:
1630 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1631 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1633 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1635 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1637 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1641 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1642 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1643 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1645 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1646 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1649 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1650 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1651 file extension as the referenced file
1653 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1654 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1656 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1657 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1658 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1659 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1662 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1663 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1664 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1666 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1667 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1668 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1669 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1672 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1673 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
1676 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
1677 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
1678 reasonable default configuration
1680 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
1681 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
1682 by all news servers and clients
1684 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
1685 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
1686 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
1687 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
1688 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
1690 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1691 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
1694 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
1696 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1697 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
1699 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
1702 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
1703 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
1705 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
1706 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
1708 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1710 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
1712 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1715 - X library package is now called xlib6g
1716 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1717 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
1719 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
1721 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
1722 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
1723 * Don't use debstd anymore
1725 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
1727 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1730 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
1731 contrib/non-free policy
1732 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
1733 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
1734 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
1735 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
1736 - new section about `Daemons'
1737 - updated section about `Configuration files'
1738 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
1739 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
1740 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1741 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
1742 * Paper about libc6 migration:
1743 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
1744 * SGML source code included in package
1745 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
1747 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
1749 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1752 - completely reworked structure
1753 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
1754 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
1755 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
1756 - removed all those ugly footnotes
1757 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
1758 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
1759 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
1760 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
1761 - mention "orphaned packages"
1762 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
1763 distributions' policy
1764 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
1765 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
1766 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
1767 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
1768 - added section about arch spec strings
1769 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
1770 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
1771 - added section about "menus"
1772 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
1773 the new documentation policy soon
1774 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
1775 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
1777 - added section about editors and pagers
1778 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
1779 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
1780 - added section about device files
1781 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
1782 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
1783 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
1785 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
1786 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
1787 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
1788 - Added new section about obsolete names
1789 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
1790 * Fixed package's description
1792 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
1794 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1796 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
1798 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
1800 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1802 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
1803 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
1804 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
1805 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
1807 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
1809 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1811 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
1812 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
1813 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
1815 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
1816 and upload it "byhand" too.
1818 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
1820 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
1824 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
1825 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
1826 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
1827 functionality must not have the same name.
1828 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
1829 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
1830 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
1831 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
1832 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
1833 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
1834 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
1836 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
1837 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
1838 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
1839 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
1840 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
1841 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
1842 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
1843 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
1846 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
1848 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
1850 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
1852 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
1853 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
1854 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
1855 a package into. (Guy Maor)
1856 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
1859 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
1861 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
1863 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
1865 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
1866 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
1867 description of deb file format.
1868 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
1869 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
1871 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
1873 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
1874 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
1876 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
1878 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
1880 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
1881 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
1882 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
1883 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
1884 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
1885 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
1886 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
1887 packages in section on Procedure
1888 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
1889 a package maintainer
1890 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
1891 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
1892 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
1894 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
1895 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
1896 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
1897 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
1898 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
1899 on various shlib files
1900 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
1901 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
1902 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
1904 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
1906 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
1908 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
1909 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
1910 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
1912 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
1913 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
1914 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
1915 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
1916 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
1918 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
1920 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
1922 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
1924 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
1926 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
1927 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
1928 compatibility go in contrib.
1930 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
1931 instructions in policy manual.
1932 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
1935 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
1937 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
1939 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
1940 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
1941 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
1942 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
1944 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
1945 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
1948 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
1950 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
1952 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
1953 * More detail about changelog format names.
1955 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
1956 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
1960 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
1962 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
1964 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
1966 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
1968 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
1970 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
1972 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
1974 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
1975 * More verbosity about netiquette.
1976 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
1978 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
1980 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
1982 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
1984 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
1986 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
1990 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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