1 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
4 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
5 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
6 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
7 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
8 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
9 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
10 Millan (Closes: #209008).
11 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
12 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
14 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
16 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
18 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
19 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
20 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
21 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
22 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
23 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
24 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
26 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
27 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
28 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
29 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
31 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
32 Küster (Closes: #403391).
33 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
34 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
35 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
36 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
37 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
38 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
39 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
40 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
41 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
42 Closes: #186700, #458910
43 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
44 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
45 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
47 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
48 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
49 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
50 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
51 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
52 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
53 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
54 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
56 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
57 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
59 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
60 * Add an md5sums control file.
61 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
62 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
63 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
64 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
65 currently part of policy.
66 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
67 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
68 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
71 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
73 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
75 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
76 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
77 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
78 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
79 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
80 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
81 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
82 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
83 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
84 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
85 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
86 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
87 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
88 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
89 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
90 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
92 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
94 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
95 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
96 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
98 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
99 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
100 list?" (Closes: #412634).
101 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
102 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
103 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
104 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
105 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
106 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
107 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
108 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
109 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
110 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
111 debconf specification.
112 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
113 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
115 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
117 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
119 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
120 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
121 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
122 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
123 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
125 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
127 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
128 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
129 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
130 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
131 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
133 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
134 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
135 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
136 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
137 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
138 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
139 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
140 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
141 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
142 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
143 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
144 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
145 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
146 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
147 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
148 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
150 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
152 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
153 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
154 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
155 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
156 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
157 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
158 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
159 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
161 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
163 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
165 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
166 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
167 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
168 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
169 Polo (Closes: #372497).
170 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
171 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
173 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
174 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
175 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
176 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
177 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
178 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
179 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
180 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
181 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
182 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
184 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
185 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
186 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
187 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
188 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
189 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
191 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
193 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
195 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
196 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
197 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
198 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
200 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
201 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
203 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
205 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
207 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
208 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
209 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
210 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
211 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
212 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
213 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
214 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
215 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
216 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
218 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
219 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
220 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
221 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
222 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
223 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
224 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
225 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
226 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
227 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
228 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
231 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
233 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
235 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
236 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
237 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
238 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
239 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
240 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
241 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
242 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
243 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
244 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
245 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
246 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
247 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
248 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
249 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
250 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
251 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
252 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
253 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
254 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
255 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
256 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
257 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
258 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
259 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
260 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
261 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
262 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
264 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
265 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
266 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
267 Hess (Closes: #362247).
268 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
269 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
270 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
271 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
272 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
273 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
274 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
275 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
276 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
277 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
278 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
279 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
281 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
282 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
284 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
285 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
286 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
287 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
288 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
289 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
290 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
291 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
292 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
293 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
294 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
296 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
298 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
301 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
302 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
303 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
304 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
305 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
306 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
307 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
308 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
309 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
310 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
311 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
312 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
313 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
315 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
316 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
317 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
318 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
319 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
320 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
321 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
322 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
323 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
324 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
325 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
326 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
327 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
328 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
329 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
330 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
331 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
332 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
333 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
336 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
338 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
340 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
341 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
342 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
343 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
345 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
346 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
347 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
348 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
350 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
352 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
355 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
356 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
357 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
358 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
359 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
360 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
361 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
362 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
363 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
364 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
366 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
367 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
368 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
370 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
371 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
372 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
373 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
374 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
375 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
376 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
378 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
379 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
380 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
381 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
383 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
384 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
385 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
386 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
387 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
388 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
389 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
390 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
392 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
393 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
394 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
395 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
396 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
397 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
398 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
399 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
400 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
401 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
402 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
403 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
404 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
405 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
406 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
407 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
408 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
410 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
412 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
415 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
416 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
417 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
418 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
419 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
420 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
421 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
422 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
423 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
425 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
426 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
427 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
428 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
429 this section. closes: Bug#248618
430 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
431 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
432 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
433 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
434 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
435 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
436 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
437 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
438 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
439 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
440 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
441 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
443 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
444 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
445 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
448 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
449 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
450 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
452 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
453 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
454 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
455 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
456 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
457 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
459 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
460 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
462 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
463 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
464 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
465 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
466 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
467 Closes: #185943, #237049
469 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
471 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
474 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
477 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
478 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
479 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
480 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
481 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
482 running. closes: Bug#187250
483 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
484 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
485 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
486 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
487 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
488 user closes: Bug#176506
490 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
492 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
495 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
496 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
497 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
498 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
499 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
500 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
501 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
502 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
503 deb-building toolchain.
504 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
505 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
506 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
507 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
508 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
509 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
510 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
511 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
512 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
513 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
514 sections about changelog files.
516 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
517 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
518 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
519 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
520 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
521 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
523 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
524 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
525 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
526 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
527 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
528 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
529 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
530 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
531 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
532 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
533 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
534 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
535 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
536 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
537 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
538 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
539 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
540 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
541 for the restructuring
543 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
545 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
548 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
550 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
551 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
552 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
553 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
554 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
555 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
557 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
558 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
559 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
560 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
561 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
562 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
563 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
565 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
566 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
567 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
568 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
570 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
572 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
575 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
576 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
577 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
578 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
579 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
580 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
582 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
583 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
584 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
585 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
587 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
588 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
589 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
590 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
591 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
592 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
593 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
594 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
595 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
597 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
598 script should start it, closes: #60979
599 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
600 "should", closes: #170019
601 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
602 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
603 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
604 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
605 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
606 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
607 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
608 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
611 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
613 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
616 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
617 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
618 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
619 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
620 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
621 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
622 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
623 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
624 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
626 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
627 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
628 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
629 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
630 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
631 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
632 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
633 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
634 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
636 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
637 file, closes: Bug#65764
639 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
641 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
643 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
644 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
645 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
646 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
647 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
648 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
649 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
650 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
651 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
652 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
653 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
654 details. closes: Bug#133030
655 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
656 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
659 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
661 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
663 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
664 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
665 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
666 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
667 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
668 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
669 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
670 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
671 not. closes: Bug#139820
672 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
673 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
674 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
675 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
676 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
677 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
678 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
679 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
680 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
681 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
683 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
685 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
686 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
687 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
688 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
689 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
690 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
691 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
692 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
693 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
694 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
695 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
696 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
697 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
698 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
699 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
700 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
701 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
702 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
703 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
704 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
706 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
707 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
708 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
709 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
710 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
711 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
712 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
714 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
715 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
716 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
717 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
718 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
719 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
720 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
721 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
722 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
724 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
726 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
728 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
729 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
730 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
731 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
732 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
733 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
734 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
735 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
736 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
737 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
738 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
739 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
740 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
741 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
742 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
743 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
744 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
745 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
746 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
747 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
748 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
749 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
750 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
752 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
754 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
756 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
757 medium, high, emergency.
758 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
759 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
760 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
761 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
762 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
765 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
766 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
767 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
769 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
770 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
771 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
772 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
773 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
774 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
775 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
778 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
780 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
782 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
783 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
784 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
785 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
787 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
788 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
789 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
790 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
791 debian/rules to do this
792 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
793 patches are incorporated upstream
794 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
795 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
796 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
797 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
798 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
799 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
801 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
802 system closes: Bug#91249
803 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
804 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
805 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
806 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
807 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
808 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
809 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
810 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
811 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
812 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
813 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
814 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
815 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
817 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
819 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
821 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
822 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
823 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
824 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
826 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
827 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
828 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
830 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
833 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
835 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
837 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
838 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
839 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
840 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
841 package for the time being
842 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
843 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
844 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
845 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
846 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
847 * Rename all .text files as .txt
848 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
849 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
850 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
851 Build-Depends arch syntax
852 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
854 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
855 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
857 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
858 from policy maintenance duties.
859 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
860 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
862 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
864 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
866 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
868 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
870 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
872 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
873 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
874 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
875 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
876 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
877 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
878 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
879 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
880 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
881 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
882 minor version number for this
883 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
884 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
885 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
886 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
887 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
888 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
889 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
890 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
891 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
893 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
895 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
897 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
898 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
899 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
900 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
901 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
903 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
905 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
906 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
907 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
908 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
909 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
910 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
911 xutils closes: Bug#82966
912 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
913 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
914 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
915 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
916 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
917 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
918 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
919 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
920 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
923 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
925 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
927 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
928 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
930 * Document the Enhances relationship
931 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
932 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
933 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
934 policy. closes: Bug#53496
935 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
936 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
938 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
940 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
941 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
942 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
943 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
945 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
946 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
947 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
948 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
949 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
951 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
953 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
955 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
956 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
957 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
959 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
960 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
961 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
962 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
963 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
964 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
965 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
966 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
967 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
969 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
971 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
973 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
975 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
976 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
977 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
978 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
979 policy. closes: Bug#64437
980 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
981 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
982 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
983 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
984 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
985 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
986 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
987 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
988 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
989 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
990 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
991 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
992 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
993 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
994 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
995 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
996 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
998 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
999 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1001 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1003 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1006 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1007 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1008 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1009 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1010 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1011 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1012 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1013 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1014 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1015 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1016 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1017 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1018 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1019 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1020 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1021 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1022 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1023 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1024 list closes: Bug#53756
1025 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1026 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1027 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1028 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1029 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1030 policy closes: Bug#53760
1031 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1032 policy closes: Bug#53761
1033 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1034 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1035 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1036 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1037 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1038 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1039 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1040 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1041 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1042 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1043 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1045 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1046 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1047 to install with older fileutils.
1048 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1049 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1050 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1051 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1053 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1054 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1056 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1058 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1060 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1061 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1063 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1065 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1068 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1070 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1073 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1076 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1078 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1080 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1082 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1085 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1087 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1089 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1092 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1093 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1094 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1095 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1096 directoried (closes: #41547)
1097 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1098 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1099 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1100 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1101 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1102 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1103 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1104 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1105 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1106 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1107 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1109 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1110 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1111 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1112 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1113 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1114 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1115 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1117 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1118 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1119 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1120 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1122 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1124 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1126 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1127 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1129 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1131 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1134 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1136 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1138 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1141 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1143 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1144 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1145 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1146 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1147 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1148 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1149 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1150 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1151 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1152 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1153 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1154 this closes: Bug#38612
1155 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1156 before. closes: Bug#40864
1158 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1160 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1162 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1163 officially uploaded.
1164 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1166 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1167 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1168 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1170 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1171 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1172 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1173 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1174 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1175 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1177 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1178 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1179 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1181 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1183 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1184 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1185 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1186 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1187 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1189 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1191 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1194 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1195 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1196 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1197 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1198 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1199 there). closes: Bug#34233
1200 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1201 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1202 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1203 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1204 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1206 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1208 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1210 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1211 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1212 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1213 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1216 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1217 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1218 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1219 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1220 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1223 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1224 number. closes: BUG#25911
1226 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1227 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1228 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1229 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1230 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1231 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1233 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1234 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1235 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1238 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1239 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1240 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1242 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1243 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1244 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1245 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1247 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1248 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1249 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1251 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1253 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1254 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1255 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1256 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1257 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1258 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1259 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1260 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1263 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1265 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1266 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1269 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1271 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1275 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1277 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1279 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1280 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1281 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1282 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1283 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1284 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1285 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1286 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1288 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1289 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1291 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1293 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1295 * non-maintainer release
1296 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1297 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1299 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1300 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1301 * no content changes
1302 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1304 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1306 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1310 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1312 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1314 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1316 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1317 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1318 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1320 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1321 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1323 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1324 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1325 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1326 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1328 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1329 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1330 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1331 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1332 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1333 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1334 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1336 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1337 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1338 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1341 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1342 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1343 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1345 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1346 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1347 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1349 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1350 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1352 * New version numbering scheme:
1354 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1355 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1356 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1359 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1360 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1361 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1362 differ between the manuals.
1364 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1365 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1366 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1367 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1369 * Packaging changes:
1371 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1372 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1374 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1376 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1378 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1382 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1383 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1384 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1386 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1387 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1390 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1391 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1392 file extension as the referenced file
1394 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1395 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1397 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1398 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1399 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1400 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1403 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1404 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1405 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1407 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1408 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1409 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1410 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1413 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1414 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
1417 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
1418 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
1419 reasonable default configuration
1421 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
1422 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
1423 by all news servers and clients
1425 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
1426 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
1427 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
1428 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
1429 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
1431 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1432 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
1435 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
1437 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1438 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
1440 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
1443 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
1444 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
1446 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
1447 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
1449 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1451 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
1453 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1456 - X library package is now called xlib6g
1457 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1458 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
1460 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
1462 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
1463 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
1464 * Don't use debstd anymore
1466 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
1468 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1471 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
1472 contrib/non-free policy
1473 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
1474 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
1475 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
1476 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
1477 - new section about `Daemons'
1478 - updated section about `Configuration files'
1479 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
1480 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
1481 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1482 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
1483 * Paper about libc6 migration:
1484 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
1485 * SGML source code included in package
1486 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
1488 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
1490 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1492 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1493 - completely reworked structure
1494 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
1495 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
1496 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
1497 - removed all those ugly footnotes
1498 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
1499 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
1500 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
1501 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
1502 - mention "orphaned packages"
1503 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
1504 distributions' policy
1505 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
1506 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
1507 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
1508 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
1509 - added section about arch spec strings
1510 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
1511 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
1512 - added section about "menus"
1513 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
1514 the new documentation policy soon
1515 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
1516 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
1518 - added section about editors and pagers
1519 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
1520 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
1521 - added section about device files
1522 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
1523 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
1524 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
1526 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
1527 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
1528 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
1529 - Added new section about obsolete names
1530 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
1531 * Fixed package's description
1533 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
1535 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1537 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
1539 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
1541 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1543 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
1544 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
1545 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
1546 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
1548 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
1550 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1552 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
1553 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
1554 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
1556 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
1557 and upload it "byhand" too.
1559 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
1561 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
1565 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
1566 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
1567 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
1568 functionality must not have the same name.
1569 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
1570 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
1571 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
1572 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
1573 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
1574 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
1575 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
1577 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
1578 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
1579 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
1580 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
1581 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
1582 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
1583 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
1584 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
1587 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
1589 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
1591 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
1593 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
1594 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
1595 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
1596 a package into. (Guy Maor)
1597 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
1600 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
1602 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
1604 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
1606 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
1607 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
1608 description of deb file format.
1609 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
1610 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
1612 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
1614 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
1615 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
1617 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
1619 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
1621 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
1622 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
1623 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
1624 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
1625 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
1626 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
1627 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
1628 packages in section on Procedure
1629 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
1630 a package maintainer
1631 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
1632 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
1633 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
1635 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
1636 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
1637 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
1638 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
1639 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
1640 on various shlib files
1641 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
1642 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
1643 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
1645 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
1647 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
1649 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
1650 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
1651 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
1653 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
1654 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
1655 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
1656 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
1657 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
1659 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
1661 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
1663 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
1665 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
1667 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
1668 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
1669 compatibility go in contrib.
1671 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
1672 instructions in policy manual.
1673 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
1676 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
1678 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
1680 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
1681 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
1682 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
1683 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
1685 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
1686 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
1689 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
1691 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
1693 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
1694 * More detail about changelog format names.
1696 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
1697 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
1701 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
1703 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
1705 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
1707 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
1709 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
1711 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
1713 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
1715 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
1716 * More verbosity about netiquette.
1717 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
1719 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
1721 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
1723 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
1725 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
1727 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
1731 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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