1 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
4 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
5 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
7 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
8 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
10 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
11 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
12 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
13 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
15 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
16 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
17 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
18 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
20 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
21 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
22 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
23 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
26 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:45:46 -0700
28 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
30 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
31 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
32 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
33 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
35 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
36 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
37 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
38 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
40 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
41 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
42 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
43 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
45 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
46 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
47 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
48 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
50 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
51 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
52 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
53 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
55 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
56 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
57 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
58 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
60 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
61 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
62 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
63 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
65 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
66 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
67 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
68 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
70 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
71 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
72 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
73 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
75 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
76 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
77 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
78 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
80 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
81 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
82 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
83 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
84 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
86 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
87 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
88 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
89 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
90 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
91 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
92 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
93 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
94 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
95 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
96 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
97 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
98 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
99 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
100 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
101 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
102 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
103 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
104 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
105 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
106 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
107 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
108 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
109 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
110 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
111 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
112 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
113 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
114 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
115 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
117 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
118 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
119 links was completed long ago.
120 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
122 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
124 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
126 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
127 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
129 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
131 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
133 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
134 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
135 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
136 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
137 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
138 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
139 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
140 Millan (Closes: #209008).
141 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
142 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
144 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
146 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
148 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
149 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
150 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
151 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
152 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
153 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
154 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
156 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
157 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
158 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
159 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
161 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
162 Küster (Closes: #403391).
163 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
164 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
165 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
166 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
167 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
168 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
169 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
170 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
171 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
172 Closes: #186700, #458910
173 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
174 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
175 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
177 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
178 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
179 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
180 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
181 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
182 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
183 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
184 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
186 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
187 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
189 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
190 * Add an md5sums control file.
191 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
192 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
193 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
194 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
195 currently part of policy.
196 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
197 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
198 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
201 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
203 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
205 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
206 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
207 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
208 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
209 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
210 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
211 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
212 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
213 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
214 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
215 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
216 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
217 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
218 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
219 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
220 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
222 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
224 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
225 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
226 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
228 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
229 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
230 list?" (Closes: #412634).
231 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
232 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
233 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
234 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
235 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
236 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
237 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
238 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
239 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
240 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
241 debconf specification.
242 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
243 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
245 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
247 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
249 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
250 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
251 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
252 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
253 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
255 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
257 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
258 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
259 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
260 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
261 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
263 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
264 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
265 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
266 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
267 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
268 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
269 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
270 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
271 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
272 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
273 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
274 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
275 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
276 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
277 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
278 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
280 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
282 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
283 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
284 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
285 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
286 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
287 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
288 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
289 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
291 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
293 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
295 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
296 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
297 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
298 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
299 Polo (Closes: #372497).
300 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
301 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
303 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
304 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
305 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
306 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
307 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
308 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
309 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
310 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
311 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
312 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
314 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
315 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
316 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
317 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
318 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
319 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
321 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
323 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
325 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
326 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
327 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
328 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
330 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
331 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
333 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
335 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
337 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
338 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
339 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
340 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
341 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
342 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
343 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
344 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
345 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
346 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
348 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
349 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
350 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
351 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
352 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
353 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
354 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
355 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
356 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
357 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
358 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
361 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
363 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
365 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
366 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
367 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
368 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
369 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
370 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
371 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
372 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
373 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
374 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
375 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
376 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
377 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
378 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
379 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
380 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
381 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
382 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
383 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
384 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
385 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
386 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
387 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
388 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
389 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
390 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
391 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
392 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
394 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
395 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
396 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
397 Hess (Closes: #362247).
398 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
399 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
400 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
401 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
402 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
403 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
404 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
405 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
406 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
407 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
408 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
409 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
411 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
412 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
414 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
415 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
416 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
417 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
418 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
419 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
420 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
421 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
422 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
423 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
424 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
426 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
428 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
431 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
432 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
433 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
434 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
435 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
436 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
437 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
438 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
439 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
440 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
441 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
442 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
443 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
445 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
446 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
447 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
448 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
449 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
450 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
451 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
452 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
453 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
454 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
455 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
456 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
457 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
458 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
459 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
460 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
461 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
462 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
463 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
466 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
468 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
470 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
471 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
472 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
473 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
475 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
476 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
477 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
478 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
480 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
482 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
485 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
486 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
487 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
488 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
489 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
490 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
491 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
492 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
493 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
494 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
496 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
497 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
498 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
500 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
501 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
502 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
503 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
504 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
505 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
506 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
508 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
509 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
510 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
511 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
513 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
514 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
515 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
516 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
517 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
518 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
519 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
520 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
522 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
523 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
524 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
525 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
526 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
527 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
528 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
529 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
530 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
531 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
532 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
533 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
534 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
535 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
536 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
537 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
538 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
540 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
542 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
545 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
546 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
547 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
548 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
549 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
550 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
551 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
552 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
553 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
555 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
556 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
557 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
558 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
559 this section. closes: Bug#248618
560 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
561 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
562 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
563 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
564 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
565 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
566 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
567 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
568 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
569 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
570 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
571 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
573 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
574 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
575 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
578 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
579 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
580 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
582 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
583 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
584 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
585 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
586 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
587 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
589 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
590 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
592 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
593 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
594 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
595 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
596 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
597 Closes: #185943, #237049
599 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
601 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
604 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
607 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
608 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
609 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
610 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
611 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
612 running. closes: Bug#187250
613 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
614 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
615 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
616 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
617 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
618 user closes: Bug#176506
620 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
622 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
625 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
626 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
627 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
628 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
629 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
630 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
631 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
632 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
633 deb-building toolchain.
634 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
635 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
636 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
637 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
638 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
639 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
640 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
641 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
642 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
643 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
644 sections about changelog files.
646 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
647 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
648 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
649 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
650 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
651 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
653 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
654 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
655 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
656 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
657 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
658 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
659 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
660 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
661 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
662 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
663 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
664 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
665 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
666 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
667 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
668 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
669 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
670 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
671 for the restructuring
673 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
675 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
678 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
680 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
681 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
682 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
683 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
684 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
685 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
687 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
688 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
689 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
690 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
691 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
692 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
693 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
695 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
696 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
697 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
698 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
700 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
702 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
705 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
706 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
707 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
708 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
709 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
710 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
712 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
713 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
714 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
715 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
717 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
718 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
719 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
720 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
721 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
722 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
723 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
724 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
725 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
727 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
728 script should start it, closes: #60979
729 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
730 "should", closes: #170019
731 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
732 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
733 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
734 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
735 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
736 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
737 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
738 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
741 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
743 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
746 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
747 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
748 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
749 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
750 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
751 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
752 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
753 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
754 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
756 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
757 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
758 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
759 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
760 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
761 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
762 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
763 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
764 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
766 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
767 file, closes: Bug#65764
769 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
771 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
773 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
774 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
775 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
776 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
777 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
778 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
779 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
780 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
781 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
782 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
783 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
784 details. closes: Bug#133030
785 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
786 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
789 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
791 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
793 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
794 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
795 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
796 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
797 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
798 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
799 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
800 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
801 not. closes: Bug#139820
802 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
803 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
804 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
805 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
806 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
807 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
808 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
809 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
810 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
811 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
813 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
815 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
816 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
817 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
818 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
819 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
820 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
821 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
822 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
823 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
824 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
825 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
826 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
827 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
828 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
829 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
830 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
831 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
832 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
833 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
834 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
836 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
837 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
838 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
839 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
840 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
841 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
842 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
844 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
845 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
846 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
847 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
848 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
849 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
850 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
851 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
852 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
854 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
856 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
858 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
859 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
860 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
861 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
862 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
863 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
864 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
865 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
866 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
867 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
868 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
869 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
870 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
871 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
872 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
873 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
874 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
875 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
876 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
877 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
878 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
879 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
880 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
882 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
884 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
886 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
887 medium, high, emergency.
888 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
889 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
890 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
891 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
892 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
895 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
896 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
897 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
899 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
900 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
901 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
902 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
903 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
904 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
905 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
908 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
910 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
912 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
913 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
914 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
915 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
917 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
918 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
919 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
920 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
921 debian/rules to do this
922 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
923 patches are incorporated upstream
924 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
925 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
926 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
927 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
928 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
929 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
931 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
932 system closes: Bug#91249
933 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
934 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
935 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
936 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
937 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
938 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
939 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
940 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
941 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
942 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
943 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
944 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
945 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
947 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
949 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
951 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
952 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
953 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
954 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
956 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
957 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
958 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
960 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
963 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
965 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
967 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
968 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
969 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
970 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
971 package for the time being
972 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
973 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
974 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
975 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
976 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
977 * Rename all .text files as .txt
978 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
979 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
980 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
981 Build-Depends arch syntax
982 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
984 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
985 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
987 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
988 from policy maintenance duties.
989 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
990 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
992 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
994 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
996 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
998 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1000 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1002 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1003 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1004 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1005 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1006 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1007 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1008 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1009 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1010 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1011 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1012 minor version number for this
1013 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1014 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1015 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1016 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1017 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1018 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1019 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1020 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1021 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1023 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1025 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1028 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1029 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1030 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1031 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1033 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1035 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1036 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1037 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1038 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1039 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1040 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1041 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1042 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1043 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1044 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1045 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1046 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1047 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1048 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1049 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1050 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1053 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1055 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1058 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1060 * Document the Enhances relationship
1061 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1062 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1063 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1064 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1065 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1066 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1068 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1070 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1071 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1072 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1073 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1075 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1076 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1077 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1078 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1079 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1081 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1083 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1086 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1087 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1089 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1090 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1091 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1092 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1093 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1094 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1095 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1096 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1097 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1099 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1101 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1103 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1106 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1107 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1108 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1109 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1110 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1111 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1112 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1113 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1114 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1115 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1116 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1117 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1118 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1119 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1120 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1121 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1122 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1123 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1124 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1125 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1126 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1128 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1129 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1131 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1133 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1135 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1136 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1137 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1138 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1139 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1140 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1141 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1142 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1143 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1144 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1145 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1146 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1147 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1148 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1149 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1150 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1151 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1152 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1153 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1154 list closes: Bug#53756
1155 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1156 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1157 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1158 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1159 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1160 policy closes: Bug#53760
1161 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1162 policy closes: Bug#53761
1163 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1164 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1165 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1166 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1167 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1168 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1169 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1170 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1171 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1172 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1173 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1175 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1176 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1177 to install with older fileutils.
1178 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1179 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1180 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1181 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1183 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1184 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1186 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1188 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1191 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1193 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1195 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1198 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1200 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1203 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1206 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1208 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1210 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1212 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1214 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1215 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1217 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1219 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1221 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1222 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1223 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1224 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1225 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1226 directoried (closes: #41547)
1227 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1228 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1229 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1230 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1231 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1232 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1233 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1234 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1235 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1236 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1237 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1239 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1240 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1241 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1242 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1243 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1244 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1245 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1247 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1248 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1249 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1250 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1252 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1254 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1256 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1257 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1259 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1261 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1264 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1266 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1268 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1270 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1271 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1273 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1274 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1275 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1276 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1277 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1278 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1279 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1280 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1281 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1282 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1283 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1284 this closes: Bug#38612
1285 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1286 before. closes: Bug#40864
1288 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1290 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1293 officially uploaded.
1294 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1296 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1297 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1298 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1300 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1301 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1302 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1303 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1304 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1305 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1307 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1308 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1309 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1311 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1313 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1314 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1315 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1316 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1317 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1319 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1321 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1323 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1324 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1325 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1326 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1327 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1328 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1329 there). closes: Bug#34233
1330 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1331 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1332 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1333 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1334 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1336 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1338 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1341 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1342 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1343 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1346 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1347 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1348 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1349 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1350 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1353 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1354 number. closes: BUG#25911
1356 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1357 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1358 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1359 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1360 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1361 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1363 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1364 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1365 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1368 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1369 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1370 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1372 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1373 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1374 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1375 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1377 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1378 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1379 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1381 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1383 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1384 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1385 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1386 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1387 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1388 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1389 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1390 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1393 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1395 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1396 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1399 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1401 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1403 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1405 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1407 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1409 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1410 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1411 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1412 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1413 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1414 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1415 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1416 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1418 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1419 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1421 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1423 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1425 * non-maintainer release
1426 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1427 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1429 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1430 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1431 * no content changes
1432 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1434 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1436 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1440 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1442 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1444 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1446 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1447 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1448 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1450 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1451 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1453 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1454 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1455 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1456 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1458 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1459 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1460 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1461 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1462 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1463 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1464 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1466 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1467 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1468 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1471 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1472 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1473 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1475 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1476 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1477 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1479 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1480 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1482 * New version numbering scheme:
1484 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1485 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1486 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1489 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1490 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1491 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1492 differ between the manuals.
1494 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1495 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1496 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1497 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1499 * Packaging changes:
1501 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1502 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1504 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1506 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1508 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1510 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1512 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1513 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1514 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1516 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1517 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1520 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1521 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1522 file extension as the referenced file
1524 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1525 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1527 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1528 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1529 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1530 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1533 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1534 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1535 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1537 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1538 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1539 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1540 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1543 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1544 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
1547 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
1548 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
1549 reasonable default configuration
1551 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
1552 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
1553 by all news servers and clients
1555 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
1556 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
1557 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
1558 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
1559 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
1561 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1562 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
1565 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
1567 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1568 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
1570 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
1573 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
1574 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
1576 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
1577 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
1579 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1581 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
1583 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1586 - X library package is now called xlib6g
1587 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1588 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
1590 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
1592 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
1593 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
1594 * Don't use debstd anymore
1596 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
1598 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1600 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1601 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
1602 contrib/non-free policy
1603 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
1604 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
1605 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
1606 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
1607 - new section about `Daemons'
1608 - updated section about `Configuration files'
1609 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
1610 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
1611 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1612 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
1613 * Paper about libc6 migration:
1614 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
1615 * SGML source code included in package
1616 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
1618 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
1620 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1623 - completely reworked structure
1624 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
1625 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
1626 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
1627 - removed all those ugly footnotes
1628 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
1629 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
1630 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
1631 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
1632 - mention "orphaned packages"
1633 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
1634 distributions' policy
1635 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
1636 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
1637 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
1638 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
1639 - added section about arch spec strings
1640 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
1641 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
1642 - added section about "menus"
1643 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
1644 the new documentation policy soon
1645 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
1646 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
1648 - added section about editors and pagers
1649 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
1650 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
1651 - added section about device files
1652 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
1653 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
1654 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
1656 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
1657 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
1658 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
1659 - Added new section about obsolete names
1660 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
1661 * Fixed package's description
1663 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
1665 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1667 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
1669 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
1671 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1673 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
1674 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
1675 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
1676 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
1678 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
1680 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1682 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
1683 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
1684 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
1686 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
1687 and upload it "byhand" too.
1689 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
1691 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
1695 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
1696 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
1697 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
1698 functionality must not have the same name.
1699 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
1700 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
1701 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
1702 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
1703 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
1704 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
1705 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
1707 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
1708 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
1709 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
1710 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
1711 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
1712 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
1713 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
1714 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
1717 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
1719 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
1721 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
1723 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
1724 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
1725 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
1726 a package into. (Guy Maor)
1727 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
1730 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
1732 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
1734 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
1736 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
1737 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
1738 description of deb file format.
1739 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
1740 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
1742 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
1744 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
1745 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
1747 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
1749 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
1751 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
1752 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
1753 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
1754 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
1755 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
1756 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
1757 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
1758 packages in section on Procedure
1759 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
1760 a package maintainer
1761 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
1762 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
1763 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
1765 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
1766 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
1767 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
1768 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
1769 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
1770 on various shlib files
1771 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
1772 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
1773 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
1775 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
1777 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
1779 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
1780 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
1781 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
1783 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
1784 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
1785 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
1786 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
1787 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
1789 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
1791 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
1793 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
1795 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
1797 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
1798 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
1799 compatibility go in contrib.
1801 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
1802 instructions in policy manual.
1803 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
1806 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
1808 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
1810 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
1811 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
1812 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
1813 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
1815 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
1816 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
1819 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
1821 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
1823 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
1824 * More detail about changelog format names.
1826 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
1827 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
1831 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
1833 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
1835 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
1837 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
1839 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
1841 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
1843 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
1845 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
1846 * More verbosity about netiquette.
1847 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
1849 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
1851 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
1853 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
1855 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
1857 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
1861 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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