1 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
4 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
5 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
7 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
9 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
10 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
11 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
12 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
14 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
16 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
17 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
18 * Add Pre-Depends and Build-Depends-Indep to the relationships not
19 allowed from main to contrib or non-free and mention that such
20 relationships are okay if the non-free package is only an
21 alternative. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #587279)
22 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
23 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
24 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
26 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:34:54 -0700
28 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
31 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
34 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
37 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
38 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
39 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
40 and distribution license' (three times).
41 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
42 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
43 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
44 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
45 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
47 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
49 Proposed by Santiago Vila
50 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
51 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
52 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
53 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
57 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
58 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
59 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
60 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
62 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
63 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
64 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
65 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
66 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
67 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
69 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
70 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
71 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
72 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
74 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
75 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
76 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
77 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
78 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
80 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
81 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
82 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
83 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
84 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
86 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
87 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
88 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
89 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
90 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
92 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
93 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
94 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
95 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
97 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
98 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
99 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
100 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
101 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
103 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
104 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
105 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
106 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
108 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
109 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
110 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
111 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
113 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
114 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
115 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
116 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
117 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
119 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
120 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
121 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
122 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
124 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
125 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
126 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
127 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
128 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
130 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
131 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
132 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
133 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
135 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
136 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
137 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
138 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
139 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
140 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
141 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
142 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
143 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
144 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
145 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
146 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
147 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
148 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
149 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
150 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
151 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
152 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
153 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
154 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
155 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
156 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
157 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
158 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
159 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
160 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
161 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
162 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
163 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
164 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
165 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
166 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
168 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
170 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
172 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
175 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
176 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
178 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
179 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
183 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
186 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
187 Wording: Steve Langasek.
188 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
189 Seconded: Julien Cristau
190 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
193 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
194 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
195 Seconded: Russ Allbery
196 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
199 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
200 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
201 Seconded: Russ Allbery
203 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
204 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
205 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
206 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
207 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
208 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
209 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
210 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
211 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
213 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
214 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
215 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
216 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
217 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
218 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
219 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
220 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
221 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
222 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
223 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
224 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
225 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
226 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
227 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
228 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
230 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
231 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
232 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
233 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
234 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
236 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
239 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
240 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
241 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
242 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
243 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
244 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
247 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
249 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
251 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
252 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
253 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
254 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
256 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
257 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
258 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
259 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
261 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
262 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
263 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
264 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
266 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
267 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
268 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
269 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
270 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
271 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
273 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
274 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
275 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
276 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
277 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
279 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
280 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
281 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
282 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
284 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
285 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
286 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
287 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
289 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
290 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
291 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
292 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
294 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
295 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
296 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
297 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
299 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
300 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
301 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
302 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
304 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
305 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
306 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
307 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
308 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
309 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
310 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
311 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
312 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
313 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
314 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
315 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
316 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
317 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
318 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
320 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
321 Source field descriptions.
322 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
323 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
324 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
325 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
326 description says otherwise.
328 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
330 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
333 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
334 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
335 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
336 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
337 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
338 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
340 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
341 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
342 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
343 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
345 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
346 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
347 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
348 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
350 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
351 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
352 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
353 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
355 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
356 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
357 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
358 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
362 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
363 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
364 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
365 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
366 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
368 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
369 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
370 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
371 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
373 * Add myself to Uploaders.
376 * Add myself to Uploaders.
377 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
379 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
380 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
381 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
383 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
385 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
387 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
388 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
389 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
390 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
392 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
393 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
394 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
395 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
397 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
398 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
399 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
400 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
402 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
403 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
404 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
405 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
407 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
408 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
409 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
410 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
412 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
413 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
414 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
415 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
417 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
418 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
419 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
420 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
422 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
423 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
424 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
425 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
427 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
428 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
429 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
430 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
432 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
433 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
434 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
435 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
437 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
438 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
439 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
440 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
441 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
443 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
444 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
445 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
446 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
447 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
448 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
449 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
450 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
451 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
452 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
453 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
454 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
455 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
456 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
457 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
458 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
459 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
460 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
461 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
462 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
463 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
464 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
465 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
466 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
467 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
468 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
469 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
470 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
471 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
472 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
474 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
475 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
476 links was completed long ago.
477 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
479 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
481 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
483 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
484 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
486 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
488 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
490 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
491 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
492 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
493 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
494 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
495 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
496 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
497 Millan (Closes: #209008).
498 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
499 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
501 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
503 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
505 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
506 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
507 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
508 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
509 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
510 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
511 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
513 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
514 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
515 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
516 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
518 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
519 Küster (Closes: #403391).
520 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
521 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
522 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
523 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
524 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
525 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
526 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
527 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
528 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
529 Closes: #186700, #458910
530 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
531 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
532 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
534 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
535 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
536 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
537 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
538 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
539 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
540 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
541 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
543 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
544 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
546 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
547 * Add an md5sums control file.
548 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
549 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
550 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
551 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
552 currently part of policy.
553 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
554 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
555 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
558 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
560 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
562 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
563 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
564 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
565 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
566 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
567 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
568 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
569 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
570 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
571 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
572 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
573 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
574 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
575 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
576 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
577 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
579 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
581 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
582 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
583 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
585 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
586 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
587 list?" (Closes: #412634).
588 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
589 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
590 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
591 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
592 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
593 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
594 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
595 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
596 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
597 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
598 debconf specification.
599 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
600 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
602 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
604 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
606 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
607 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
608 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
609 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
610 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
612 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
614 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
615 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
616 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
617 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
618 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
620 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
621 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
622 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
623 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
624 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
625 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
626 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
627 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
628 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
629 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
630 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
631 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
632 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
633 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
634 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
635 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
637 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
639 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
640 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
641 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
642 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
643 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
644 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
645 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
646 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
648 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
650 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
652 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
653 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
654 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
655 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
656 Polo (Closes: #372497).
657 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
658 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
660 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
661 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
662 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
663 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
664 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
665 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
666 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
667 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
668 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
669 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
671 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
672 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
673 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
674 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
675 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
676 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
678 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
680 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
682 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
683 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
684 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
685 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
687 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
688 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
690 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
692 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
694 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
695 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
696 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
697 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
698 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
699 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
700 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
701 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
702 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
703 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
705 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
706 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
707 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
708 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
709 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
710 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
711 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
712 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
713 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
714 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
715 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
718 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
720 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
722 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
723 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
724 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
725 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
726 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
727 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
728 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
729 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
730 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
731 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
732 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
733 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
734 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
735 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
736 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
737 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
738 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
739 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
740 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
741 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
742 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
743 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
744 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
745 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
746 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
747 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
748 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
749 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
751 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
752 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
753 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
754 Hess (Closes: #362247).
755 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
756 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
757 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
758 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
759 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
760 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
761 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
762 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
763 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
764 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
765 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
766 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
768 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
769 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
771 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
772 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
773 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
774 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
775 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
776 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
777 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
778 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
779 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
780 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
781 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
783 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
785 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
788 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
789 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
790 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
791 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
792 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
793 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
794 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
795 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
796 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
797 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
798 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
799 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
800 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
802 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
803 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
804 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
805 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
806 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
807 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
808 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
809 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
810 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
811 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
812 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
813 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
814 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
815 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
816 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
817 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
818 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
819 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
820 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
823 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
825 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
827 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
828 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
829 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
830 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
832 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
833 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
834 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
835 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
837 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
839 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
842 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
843 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
844 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
845 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
846 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
847 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
848 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
849 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
850 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
851 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
853 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
854 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
855 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
857 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
858 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
859 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
860 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
861 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
862 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
863 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
865 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
866 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
867 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
868 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
870 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
871 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
872 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
873 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
874 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
875 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
876 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
877 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
879 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
880 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
881 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
882 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
883 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
884 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
885 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
886 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
887 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
888 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
889 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
890 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
891 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
892 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
893 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
894 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
895 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
897 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
899 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
902 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
903 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
904 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
905 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
906 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
907 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
908 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
909 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
910 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
912 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
913 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
914 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
915 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
916 this section. closes: Bug#248618
917 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
918 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
919 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
920 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
921 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
922 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
923 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
924 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
925 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
926 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
927 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
928 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
930 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
931 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
932 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
935 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
936 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
937 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
939 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
940 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
941 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
942 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
943 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
944 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
946 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
947 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
949 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
950 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
951 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
952 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
953 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
954 Closes: #185943, #237049
956 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
958 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
961 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
964 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
965 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
966 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
967 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
968 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
969 running. closes: Bug#187250
970 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
971 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
972 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
973 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
974 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
975 user closes: Bug#176506
977 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
979 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
982 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
983 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
984 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
985 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
986 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
987 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
988 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
989 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
990 deb-building toolchain.
991 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
992 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
993 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
994 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
995 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
996 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
997 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
998 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
999 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1000 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1001 sections about changelog files.
1003 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1004 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1005 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1006 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1007 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1008 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1010 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1011 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1012 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1013 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1014 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1015 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1016 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1017 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1018 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1019 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1020 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1021 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1022 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1023 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1024 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1025 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1026 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1027 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1028 for the restructuring
1030 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1032 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1035 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1037 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1038 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1039 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1040 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1041 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1042 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1044 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1045 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1046 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1047 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1048 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1049 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1050 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1052 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1053 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1054 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1055 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1057 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1059 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1063 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1064 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1065 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1066 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1067 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1069 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1070 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1071 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1072 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1074 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1075 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1076 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1077 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1078 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1079 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1080 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1081 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1082 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1083 offtopic stuff, too.
1084 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1085 script should start it, closes: #60979
1086 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1087 "should", closes: #170019
1088 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1089 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1090 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1091 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1092 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1093 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1094 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1095 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1098 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1100 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1103 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1104 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1105 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1106 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1107 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1108 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1109 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1110 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1111 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1113 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1114 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1115 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1116 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1117 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1118 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1119 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1120 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1121 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1123 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1124 file, closes: Bug#65764
1126 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1128 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1130 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1131 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1132 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1133 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1134 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1135 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1136 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1137 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1138 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1139 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1140 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1141 details. closes: Bug#133030
1142 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1143 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1144 parts of Bug#161455.
1146 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1148 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1151 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1152 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1153 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1154 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1155 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1156 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1157 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1158 not. closes: Bug#139820
1159 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1160 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1161 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1162 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1163 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1164 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1165 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1166 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1167 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1168 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1170 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1172 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1173 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1174 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1175 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1176 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1177 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1178 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1179 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1180 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1181 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1182 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1183 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1184 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1185 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1186 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1187 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1188 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1189 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1190 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1191 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1193 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1194 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1195 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1196 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1197 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1198 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1199 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1201 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1202 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1203 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1204 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1205 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1206 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1207 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1208 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1209 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1211 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1213 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1215 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1216 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1217 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1218 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1219 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1220 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1221 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1222 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1223 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1224 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1225 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1226 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1227 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1228 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1229 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1230 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1231 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1232 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1233 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1234 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1235 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1236 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1237 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1239 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1241 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1244 medium, high, emergency.
1245 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1246 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1247 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1248 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1249 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1252 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1253 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1254 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1256 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1257 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1258 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1259 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1260 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1261 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1262 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1265 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1267 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1270 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1271 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1272 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1274 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1275 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1276 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1277 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1278 debian/rules to do this
1279 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1280 patches are incorporated upstream
1281 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1282 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1283 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1284 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1285 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1286 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1288 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1289 system closes: Bug#91249
1290 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1291 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1292 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1293 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1294 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1295 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1296 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1297 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1298 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1299 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1300 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1301 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1302 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1304 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1306 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1309 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1310 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1311 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1313 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1314 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1315 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1317 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1320 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1322 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1324 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1325 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1326 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1327 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1328 package for the time being
1329 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1330 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1331 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1332 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1333 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1334 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1335 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1336 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1337 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1338 Build-Depends arch syntax
1339 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1341 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1342 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1344 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1345 from policy maintenance duties.
1346 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1347 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1349 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1351 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1355 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1357 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1359 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1360 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1361 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1362 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1363 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1364 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1365 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1366 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1367 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1368 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1369 minor version number for this
1370 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1371 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1372 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1373 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1374 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1375 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1376 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1377 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1378 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1380 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1382 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1384 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1385 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1386 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1387 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1388 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1390 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1392 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1393 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1394 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1395 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1396 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1397 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1398 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1399 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1400 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1401 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1402 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1403 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1404 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1405 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1406 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1407 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1410 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1412 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1415 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1417 * Document the Enhances relationship
1418 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1419 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1420 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1421 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1422 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1423 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1425 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1427 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1428 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1429 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1430 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1432 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1433 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1434 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1435 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1436 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1438 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1440 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1443 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1444 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1446 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1447 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1448 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1449 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1450 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1451 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1452 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1453 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1454 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1456 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1458 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1460 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1463 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1464 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1465 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1466 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1467 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1468 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1469 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1470 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1471 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1472 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1473 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1474 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1475 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1476 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1477 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1478 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1479 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1480 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1481 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1482 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1483 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1485 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1486 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1488 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1490 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1492 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1493 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1494 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1495 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1496 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1497 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1498 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1499 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1500 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1501 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1502 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1503 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1504 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1505 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1506 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1507 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1508 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1509 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1510 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1511 list closes: Bug#53756
1512 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1513 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1514 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1515 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1516 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1517 policy closes: Bug#53760
1518 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1519 policy closes: Bug#53761
1520 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1521 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1522 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1523 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1524 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1525 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1526 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1527 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1528 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1529 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1530 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1532 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1533 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1534 to install with older fileutils.
1535 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1536 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1537 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1538 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1540 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1541 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1543 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1545 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1547 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1548 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1550 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1552 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1555 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1557 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1560 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1562 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1563 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1565 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1567 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1569 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1572 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1574 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1576 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1578 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1579 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1580 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1581 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1582 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1583 directoried (closes: #41547)
1584 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1585 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1586 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1587 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1588 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1589 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1590 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1591 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1592 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1593 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1594 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1596 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1597 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1598 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1599 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1600 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1601 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1602 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1604 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1605 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1606 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1607 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1609 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1611 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1613 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1614 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1616 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1618 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1621 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1623 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1625 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1628 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1630 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1631 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1632 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1633 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1634 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1635 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1636 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1637 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1638 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1639 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1640 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1641 this closes: Bug#38612
1642 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1643 before. closes: Bug#40864
1645 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1647 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1650 officially uploaded.
1651 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1653 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1654 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1655 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1657 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1658 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1659 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1660 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1661 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1662 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1664 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1665 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1666 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1668 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1670 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1671 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1672 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1673 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1674 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1676 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1678 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1681 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1682 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1683 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1684 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1685 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1686 there). closes: Bug#34233
1687 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1688 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1689 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1690 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1691 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1693 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1695 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1698 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1699 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1700 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1703 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1704 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1705 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1706 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1707 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1710 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1711 number. closes: BUG#25911
1713 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1714 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1715 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1716 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1717 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1718 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1720 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1721 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1722 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1725 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1726 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1727 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1729 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1730 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1731 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1732 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1734 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1735 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1736 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1738 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1740 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1741 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1742 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1743 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1744 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1745 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1746 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1747 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1750 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1752 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1753 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1756 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1758 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1762 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1764 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1766 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1767 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1768 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1769 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1770 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1771 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1772 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1773 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1775 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1776 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1778 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1780 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1782 * non-maintainer release
1783 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1784 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1786 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1787 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1788 * no content changes
1789 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1791 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1793 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1797 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1799 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1801 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1803 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1804 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1805 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1807 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1808 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1810 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1811 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1812 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1813 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1815 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1816 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1817 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1818 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1819 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1820 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1821 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1823 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1824 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1825 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1828 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1829 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1830 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1832 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1833 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1834 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1836 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1837 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1839 * New version numbering scheme:
1841 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1842 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1843 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1846 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1847 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1848 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1849 differ between the manuals.
1851 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1852 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1853 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1854 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1856 * Packaging changes:
1858 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1859 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1861 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1863 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1865 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1869 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1870 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1871 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1873 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1874 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1877 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1878 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1879 file extension as the referenced file
1881 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1882 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1884 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1885 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1886 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1887 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1890 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1891 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1892 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1894 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1895 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1896 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1897 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1900 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1901 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
1904 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
1905 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
1906 reasonable default configuration
1908 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
1909 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
1910 by all news servers and clients
1912 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
1913 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
1914 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
1915 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
1916 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
1918 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1919 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
1922 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
1924 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1925 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
1927 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
1930 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
1931 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
1933 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
1934 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
1936 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1938 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
1940 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1943 - X library package is now called xlib6g
1944 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1945 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
1947 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
1949 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
1950 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
1951 * Don't use debstd anymore
1953 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
1955 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1958 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
1959 contrib/non-free policy
1960 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
1961 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
1962 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
1963 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
1964 - new section about `Daemons'
1965 - updated section about `Configuration files'
1966 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
1967 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
1968 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1969 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
1970 * Paper about libc6 migration:
1971 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
1972 * SGML source code included in package
1973 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
1975 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
1977 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1980 - completely reworked structure
1981 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
1982 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
1983 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
1984 - removed all those ugly footnotes
1985 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
1986 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
1987 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
1988 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
1989 - mention "orphaned packages"
1990 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
1991 distributions' policy
1992 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
1993 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
1994 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
1995 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
1996 - added section about arch spec strings
1997 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
1998 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
1999 - added section about "menus"
2000 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2001 the new documentation policy soon
2002 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2003 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2005 - added section about editors and pagers
2006 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2007 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2008 - added section about device files
2009 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2010 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2011 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2013 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2014 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2015 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2016 - Added new section about obsolete names
2017 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2018 * Fixed package's description
2020 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2022 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2024 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2026 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2028 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2030 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2031 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2032 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2033 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2035 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2037 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2039 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2040 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2041 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2043 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2044 and upload it "byhand" too.
2046 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2048 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2052 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2053 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2054 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2055 functionality must not have the same name.
2056 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2057 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2058 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2059 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2060 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2061 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2062 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2064 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2065 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2066 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2067 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2068 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2069 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2070 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2071 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2074 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2076 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2078 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2080 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2081 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2082 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2083 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2084 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2087 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2089 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2091 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2093 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2094 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2095 description of deb file format.
2096 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2097 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2099 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2101 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2102 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2104 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2106 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2108 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2109 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2110 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2111 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2112 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2113 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2114 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2115 packages in section on Procedure
2116 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2117 a package maintainer
2118 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2119 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2120 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2122 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2123 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2124 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2125 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2126 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2127 on various shlib files
2128 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2129 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2130 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2132 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2134 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2136 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2137 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2138 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2140 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2141 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2142 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2143 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2144 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2146 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2148 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2150 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2152 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2154 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2155 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2156 compatibility go in contrib.
2158 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2159 instructions in policy manual.
2160 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2163 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2165 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2167 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2168 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2169 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2170 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2172 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2173 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2176 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2178 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2180 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2181 * More detail about changelog format names.
2183 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2184 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2188 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2190 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2192 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2194 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2196 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2198 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2200 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2202 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2203 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2204 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2206 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2208 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2210 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2212 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2214 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2218 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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