1 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
5 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
7 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
8 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
9 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
11 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
12 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
13 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
14 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
16 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
17 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
18 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
19 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
21 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
22 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
23 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
24 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
26 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
27 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
28 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
29 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
31 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
32 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
33 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
34 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
38 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
39 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
40 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
41 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
42 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
44 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:45:46 -0700
46 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
48 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
49 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
50 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
51 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
53 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
54 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
55 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
56 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
58 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
59 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
60 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
61 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
63 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
64 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
65 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
66 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
68 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
69 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
70 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
71 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
73 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
74 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
75 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
76 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
78 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
79 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
80 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
81 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
83 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
84 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
85 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
86 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
88 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
89 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
90 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
91 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
93 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
94 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
95 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
96 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
98 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
99 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
100 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
101 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
102 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
104 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
105 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
106 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
107 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
108 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
109 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
110 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
111 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
112 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
113 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
114 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
115 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
116 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
117 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
118 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
119 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
120 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
121 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
122 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
123 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
124 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
125 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
126 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
127 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
128 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
129 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
130 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
131 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
132 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
133 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
135 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
136 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
137 links was completed long ago.
138 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
140 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
142 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
144 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
145 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
147 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
149 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
151 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
152 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
153 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
154 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
155 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
156 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
157 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
158 Millan (Closes: #209008).
159 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
160 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
162 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
164 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
166 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
167 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
168 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
169 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
170 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
171 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
172 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
174 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
175 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
176 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
177 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
179 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
180 Küster (Closes: #403391).
181 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
182 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
183 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
184 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
185 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
186 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
187 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
188 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
189 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
190 Closes: #186700, #458910
191 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
192 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
193 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
195 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
196 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
197 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
198 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
199 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
200 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
201 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
202 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
204 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
205 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
207 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
208 * Add an md5sums control file.
209 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
210 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
211 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
212 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
213 currently part of policy.
214 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
215 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
216 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
219 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
221 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
223 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
224 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
225 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
226 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
227 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
228 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
229 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
230 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
231 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
232 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
233 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
234 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
235 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
236 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
237 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
238 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
240 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
242 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
243 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
244 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
246 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
247 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
248 list?" (Closes: #412634).
249 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
250 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
251 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
252 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
253 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
254 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
255 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
256 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
257 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
258 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
259 debconf specification.
260 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
261 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
263 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
265 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
267 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
268 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
269 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
270 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
271 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
273 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
275 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
276 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
277 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
278 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
279 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
281 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
282 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
283 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
284 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
285 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
286 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
287 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
288 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
289 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
290 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
291 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
292 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
293 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
294 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
295 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
296 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
298 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
300 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
301 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
302 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
303 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
304 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
305 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
306 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
307 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
309 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
311 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
313 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
314 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
315 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
316 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
317 Polo (Closes: #372497).
318 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
319 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
321 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
322 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
323 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
324 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
325 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
326 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
327 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
328 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
329 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
330 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
332 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
333 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
334 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
335 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
336 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
337 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
339 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
341 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
343 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
344 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
345 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
346 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
348 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
349 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
351 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
353 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
355 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
356 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
357 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
358 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
359 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
360 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
361 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
362 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
363 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
364 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
366 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
367 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
368 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
369 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
370 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
371 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
372 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
373 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
374 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
375 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
376 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
379 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
381 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
383 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
384 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
385 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
386 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
387 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
388 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
389 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
390 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
391 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
392 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
393 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
394 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
395 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
396 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
397 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
398 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
399 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
400 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
401 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
402 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
403 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
404 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
405 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
406 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
407 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
408 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
409 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
410 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
412 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
413 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
414 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
415 Hess (Closes: #362247).
416 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
417 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
418 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
419 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
420 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
421 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
422 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
423 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
424 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
425 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
426 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
427 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
429 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
430 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
432 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
433 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
434 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
435 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
436 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
437 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
438 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
439 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
440 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
441 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
442 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
444 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
446 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
449 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
450 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
451 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
452 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
453 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
454 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
455 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
456 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
457 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
458 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
459 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
460 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
461 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
463 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
464 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
465 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
466 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
467 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
468 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
469 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
470 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
471 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
472 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
473 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
474 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
475 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
476 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
477 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
478 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
479 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
480 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
481 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
484 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
486 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
488 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
489 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
490 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
491 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
493 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
494 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
495 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
496 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
498 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
500 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
503 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
504 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
505 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
506 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
507 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
508 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
509 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
510 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
511 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
512 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
514 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
515 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
516 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
518 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
519 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
520 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
521 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
522 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
523 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
524 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
526 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
527 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
528 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
529 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
531 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
532 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
533 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
534 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
535 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
536 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
537 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
538 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
540 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
541 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
542 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
543 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
544 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
545 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
546 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
547 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
548 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
549 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
550 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
551 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
552 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
553 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
554 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
555 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
556 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
558 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
560 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
563 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
564 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
565 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
566 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
567 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
568 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
569 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
570 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
571 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
573 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
574 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
575 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
576 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
577 this section. closes: Bug#248618
578 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
579 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
580 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
581 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
582 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
583 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
584 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
585 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
586 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
587 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
588 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
589 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
591 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
592 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
593 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
596 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
597 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
598 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
600 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
601 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
602 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
603 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
604 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
605 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
607 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
608 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
610 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
611 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
612 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
613 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
614 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
615 Closes: #185943, #237049
617 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
619 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
622 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
625 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
626 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
627 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
628 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
629 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
630 running. closes: Bug#187250
631 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
632 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
633 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
634 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
635 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
636 user closes: Bug#176506
638 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
640 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
643 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
644 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
645 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
646 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
647 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
648 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
649 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
650 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
651 deb-building toolchain.
652 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
653 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
654 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
655 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
656 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
657 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
658 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
659 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
660 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
661 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
662 sections about changelog files.
664 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
665 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
666 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
667 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
668 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
669 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
671 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
672 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
673 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
674 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
675 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
676 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
677 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
678 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
679 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
680 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
681 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
682 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
683 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
684 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
685 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
686 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
687 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
688 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
689 for the restructuring
691 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
693 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
696 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
698 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
699 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
700 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
701 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
702 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
703 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
705 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
706 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
707 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
708 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
709 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
710 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
711 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
713 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
714 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
715 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
716 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
718 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
720 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
723 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
724 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
725 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
726 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
727 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
728 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
730 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
731 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
732 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
733 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
735 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
736 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
737 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
738 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
739 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
740 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
741 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
742 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
743 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
745 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
746 script should start it, closes: #60979
747 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
748 "should", closes: #170019
749 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
750 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
751 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
752 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
753 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
754 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
755 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
756 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
759 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
761 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
764 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
765 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
766 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
767 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
768 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
769 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
770 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
771 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
772 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
774 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
775 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
776 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
777 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
778 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
779 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
780 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
781 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
782 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
784 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
785 file, closes: Bug#65764
787 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
789 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
791 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
792 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
793 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
794 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
795 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
796 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
797 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
798 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
799 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
800 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
801 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
802 details. closes: Bug#133030
803 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
804 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
807 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
809 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
811 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
812 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
813 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
814 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
815 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
816 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
817 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
818 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
819 not. closes: Bug#139820
820 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
821 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
822 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
823 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
824 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
825 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
826 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
827 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
828 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
829 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
831 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
833 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
834 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
835 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
836 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
837 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
838 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
839 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
840 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
841 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
842 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
843 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
844 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
845 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
846 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
847 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
848 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
849 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
850 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
851 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
852 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
854 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
855 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
856 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
857 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
858 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
859 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
860 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
862 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
863 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
864 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
865 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
866 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
867 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
868 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
869 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
870 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
872 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
874 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
876 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
877 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
878 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
879 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
880 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
881 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
882 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
883 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
884 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
885 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
886 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
887 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
888 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
889 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
890 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
891 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
892 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
893 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
894 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
895 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
896 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
897 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
898 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
900 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
902 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
904 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
905 medium, high, emergency.
906 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
907 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
908 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
909 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
910 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
913 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
914 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
915 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
917 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
918 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
919 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
920 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
921 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
922 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
923 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
926 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
928 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
930 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
931 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
932 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
933 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
935 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
936 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
937 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
938 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
939 debian/rules to do this
940 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
941 patches are incorporated upstream
942 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
943 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
944 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
945 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
946 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
947 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
949 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
950 system closes: Bug#91249
951 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
952 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
953 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
954 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
955 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
956 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
957 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
958 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
959 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
960 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
961 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
962 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
963 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
965 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
967 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
969 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
970 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
971 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
972 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
974 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
975 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
976 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
978 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
981 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
983 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
985 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
986 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
987 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
988 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
989 package for the time being
990 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
991 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
992 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
993 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
994 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
995 * Rename all .text files as .txt
996 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
997 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
998 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
999 Build-Depends arch syntax
1000 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1002 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1003 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1005 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1006 from policy maintenance duties.
1007 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1008 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1010 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1012 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1016 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1018 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1021 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1022 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1023 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1024 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1025 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1026 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1027 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1028 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1029 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1030 minor version number for this
1031 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1032 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1033 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1034 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1035 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1036 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1037 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1038 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1039 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1041 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1043 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1045 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1046 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1047 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1048 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1049 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1051 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1053 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1054 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1055 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1056 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1057 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1058 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1059 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1060 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1061 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1062 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1063 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1064 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1065 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1066 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1067 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1068 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1071 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1073 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1076 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1078 * Document the Enhances relationship
1079 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1080 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1081 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1082 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1083 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1084 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1086 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1088 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1089 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1090 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1091 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1093 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1094 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1095 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1096 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1097 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1099 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1101 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1103 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1104 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1105 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1107 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1108 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1109 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1110 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1111 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1112 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1113 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1114 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1115 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1117 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1119 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1121 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1124 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1125 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1126 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1127 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1128 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1129 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1130 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1131 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1132 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1133 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1134 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1135 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1136 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1137 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1138 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1139 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1140 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1141 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1142 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1143 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1144 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1146 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1147 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1149 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1151 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1154 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1155 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1156 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1157 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1158 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1159 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1160 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1161 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1162 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1163 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1164 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1165 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1166 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1167 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1168 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1169 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1170 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1171 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1172 list closes: Bug#53756
1173 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1174 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1175 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1176 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1177 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1178 policy closes: Bug#53760
1179 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1180 policy closes: Bug#53761
1181 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1182 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1183 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1184 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1185 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1186 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1187 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1188 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1189 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1190 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1191 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1193 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1194 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1195 to install with older fileutils.
1196 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1197 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1198 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1199 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1201 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1202 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1204 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1206 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1209 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1211 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1213 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1215 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1216 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1218 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1221 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1224 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1226 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1228 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1230 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1233 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1235 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1237 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1240 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1241 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1242 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1243 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1244 directoried (closes: #41547)
1245 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1246 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1247 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1248 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1249 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1250 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1251 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1252 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1253 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1254 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1255 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1257 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1258 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1259 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1260 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1261 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1262 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1263 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1265 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1266 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1267 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1268 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1270 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1272 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1274 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1275 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1277 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1279 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1282 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1284 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1286 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1288 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1289 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1291 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1292 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1293 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1294 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1295 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1296 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1297 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1298 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1299 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1300 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1301 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1302 this closes: Bug#38612
1303 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1304 before. closes: Bug#40864
1306 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1308 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1310 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1311 officially uploaded.
1312 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1314 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1315 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1316 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1318 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1319 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1320 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1321 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1322 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1323 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1325 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1326 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1327 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1329 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1331 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1332 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1333 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1334 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1335 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1337 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1339 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1342 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1343 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1344 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1345 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1346 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1347 there). closes: Bug#34233
1348 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1349 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1350 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1351 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1352 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1354 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1356 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1359 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1360 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1361 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1364 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1365 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1366 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1367 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1368 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1371 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1372 number. closes: BUG#25911
1374 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1375 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1376 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1377 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1378 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1379 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1381 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1382 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1383 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1386 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1387 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1388 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1390 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1391 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1392 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1393 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1395 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1396 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1397 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1399 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1401 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1402 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1403 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1404 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1405 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1406 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1407 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1408 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1411 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1413 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1414 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1417 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1419 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1421 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1423 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1425 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1428 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1429 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1430 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1431 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1432 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1433 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1434 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1436 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1437 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1439 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1441 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1443 * non-maintainer release
1444 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1445 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1447 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1448 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1449 * no content changes
1450 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1452 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1454 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1458 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1460 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1462 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1464 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1465 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1466 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1468 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1469 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1471 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1472 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1473 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1474 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1476 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1477 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1478 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1479 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1480 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1481 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1482 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1484 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1485 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1486 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1489 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1490 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1491 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1493 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1494 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1495 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1497 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1498 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1500 * New version numbering scheme:
1502 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1503 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1504 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1507 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1508 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1509 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1510 differ between the manuals.
1512 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1513 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1514 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1515 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1517 * Packaging changes:
1519 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1520 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1522 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1524 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1526 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1530 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1531 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1532 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1534 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1535 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1538 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1539 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1540 file extension as the referenced file
1542 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1543 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1545 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1546 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1547 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1548 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1551 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1552 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1553 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1555 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1556 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1557 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1558 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1561 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1562 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
1565 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
1566 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
1567 reasonable default configuration
1569 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
1570 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
1571 by all news servers and clients
1573 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
1574 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
1575 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
1576 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
1577 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
1579 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1580 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
1583 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
1585 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1586 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
1588 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
1591 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
1592 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
1594 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
1595 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
1597 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1599 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
1601 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1604 - X library package is now called xlib6g
1605 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1606 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
1608 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
1610 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
1611 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
1612 * Don't use debstd anymore
1614 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
1616 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1619 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
1620 contrib/non-free policy
1621 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
1622 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
1623 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
1624 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
1625 - new section about `Daemons'
1626 - updated section about `Configuration files'
1627 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
1628 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
1629 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1630 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
1631 * Paper about libc6 migration:
1632 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
1633 * SGML source code included in package
1634 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
1636 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
1638 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1641 - completely reworked structure
1642 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
1643 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
1644 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
1645 - removed all those ugly footnotes
1646 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
1647 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
1648 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
1649 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
1650 - mention "orphaned packages"
1651 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
1652 distributions' policy
1653 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
1654 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
1655 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
1656 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
1657 - added section about arch spec strings
1658 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
1659 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
1660 - added section about "menus"
1661 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
1662 the new documentation policy soon
1663 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
1664 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
1666 - added section about editors and pagers
1667 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
1668 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
1669 - added section about device files
1670 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
1671 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
1672 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
1674 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
1675 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
1676 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
1677 - Added new section about obsolete names
1678 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
1679 * Fixed package's description
1681 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
1683 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1685 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
1687 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
1689 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1691 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
1692 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
1693 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
1694 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
1696 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
1698 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1700 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
1701 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
1702 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
1704 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
1705 and upload it "byhand" too.
1707 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
1709 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
1713 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
1714 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
1715 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
1716 functionality must not have the same name.
1717 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
1718 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
1719 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
1720 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
1721 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
1722 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
1723 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
1725 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
1726 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
1727 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
1728 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
1729 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
1730 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
1731 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
1732 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
1735 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
1737 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
1739 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
1741 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
1742 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
1743 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
1744 a package into. (Guy Maor)
1745 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
1748 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
1750 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
1752 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
1754 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
1755 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
1756 description of deb file format.
1757 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
1758 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
1760 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
1762 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
1763 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
1765 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
1767 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
1769 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
1770 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
1771 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
1772 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
1773 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
1774 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
1775 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
1776 packages in section on Procedure
1777 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
1778 a package maintainer
1779 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
1780 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
1781 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
1783 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
1784 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
1785 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
1786 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
1787 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
1788 on various shlib files
1789 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
1790 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
1791 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
1793 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
1795 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
1797 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
1798 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
1799 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
1801 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
1802 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
1803 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
1804 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
1805 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
1807 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
1809 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
1811 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
1813 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
1815 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
1816 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
1817 compatibility go in contrib.
1819 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
1820 instructions in policy manual.
1821 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
1824 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
1826 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
1828 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
1829 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
1830 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
1831 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
1833 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
1834 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
1837 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
1839 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
1841 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
1842 * More detail about changelog format names.
1844 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
1845 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
1849 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
1851 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
1853 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
1855 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
1857 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
1859 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
1861 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
1863 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
1864 * More verbosity about netiquette.
1865 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
1867 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
1869 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
1871 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
1873 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
1875 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
1879 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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