1 debian-policy (3.8.5.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
7 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
10 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
11 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
12 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
13 and distribution license' (three times).
14 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
15 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
16 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
17 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
18 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
20 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
22 Proposed by Santiago Vila
23 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
24 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
25 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
26 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
30 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
31 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
32 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
33 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
34 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
35 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
37 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
38 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
39 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
40 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
42 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
43 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
44 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
45 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
46 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
48 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
49 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
50 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
51 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
52 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
54 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
55 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
56 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
57 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
58 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
60 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
61 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
62 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
63 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
65 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
66 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
67 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
68 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
69 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
71 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
72 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
73 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
74 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
76 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
77 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
78 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
79 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
81 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
82 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
83 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
84 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
86 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
87 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
88 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
89 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
90 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
92 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
93 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
94 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
95 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
97 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
98 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
99 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
100 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
101 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
102 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
103 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
104 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
105 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
106 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
107 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
108 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
109 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
110 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
111 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
112 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
113 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
114 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
115 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
116 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
117 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
118 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
119 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
120 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
121 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
122 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
123 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
124 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
125 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
126 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
127 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
128 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
131 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Mon, 31 May 2010 20:00:28 +0200
133 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
136 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
137 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
139 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
140 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
144 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
147 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
148 Wording: Steve Langasek.
149 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
150 Seconded: Julien Cristau
151 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
154 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
155 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
156 Seconded: Russ Allbery
157 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
160 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
161 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
162 Seconded: Russ Allbery
164 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
165 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
166 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
167 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
168 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
169 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
170 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
171 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
172 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
174 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
175 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
176 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
177 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
178 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
179 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
180 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
181 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
182 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
183 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
184 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
185 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
186 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
187 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
188 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
189 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
191 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
192 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
193 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
194 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
195 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
197 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
200 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
201 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
202 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
203 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
204 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
205 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
208 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
210 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
212 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
213 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
214 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
215 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
217 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
218 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
219 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
220 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
222 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
223 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
224 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
225 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
227 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
228 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
229 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
230 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
231 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
232 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
234 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
235 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
236 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
237 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
238 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
240 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
241 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
242 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
243 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
245 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
246 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
247 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
248 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
250 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
251 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
252 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
253 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
255 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
256 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
257 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
258 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
260 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
261 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
262 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
263 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
265 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
266 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
267 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
268 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
269 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
270 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
271 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
272 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
273 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
274 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
275 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
276 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
277 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
278 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
279 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
281 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
282 Source field descriptions.
283 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
284 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
285 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
286 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
287 description says otherwise.
289 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
291 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
294 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
295 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
296 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
297 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
298 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
299 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
301 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
302 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
303 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
304 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
306 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
307 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
308 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
309 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
311 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
312 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
313 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
314 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
316 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
317 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
318 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
319 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
323 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
324 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
325 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
326 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
327 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
329 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
330 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
331 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
332 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
334 * Add myself to Uploaders.
337 * Add myself to Uploaders.
338 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
340 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
341 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
342 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
344 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
346 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
348 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
349 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
350 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
351 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
353 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
354 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
355 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
356 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
358 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
359 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
360 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
361 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
363 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
364 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
365 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
366 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
368 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
369 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
370 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
371 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
373 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
374 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
375 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
376 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
378 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
379 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
380 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
381 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
383 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
384 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
385 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
386 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
388 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
389 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
390 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
391 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
393 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
394 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
395 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
396 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
398 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
399 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
400 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
401 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
402 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
404 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
405 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
406 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
407 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
408 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
409 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
410 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
411 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
412 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
413 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
414 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
415 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
416 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
417 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
418 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
419 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
420 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
421 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
422 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
423 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
424 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
425 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
426 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
427 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
428 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
429 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
430 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
431 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
432 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
433 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
435 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
436 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
437 links was completed long ago.
438 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
440 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
442 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
444 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
445 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
447 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
449 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
451 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
452 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
453 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
454 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
455 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
456 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
457 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
458 Millan (Closes: #209008).
459 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
460 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
462 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
464 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
466 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
467 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
468 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
469 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
470 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
471 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
472 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
474 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
475 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
476 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
477 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
479 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
480 Küster (Closes: #403391).
481 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
482 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
483 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
484 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
485 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
486 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
487 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
488 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
489 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
490 Closes: #186700, #458910
491 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
492 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
493 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
495 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
496 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
497 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
498 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
499 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
500 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
501 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
502 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
504 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
505 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
507 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
508 * Add an md5sums control file.
509 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
510 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
511 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
512 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
513 currently part of policy.
514 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
515 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
516 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
519 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
521 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
523 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
524 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
525 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
526 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
527 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
528 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
529 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
530 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
531 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
532 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
533 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
534 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
535 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
536 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
537 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
538 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
540 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
542 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
543 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
544 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
546 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
547 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
548 list?" (Closes: #412634).
549 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
550 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
551 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
552 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
553 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
554 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
555 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
556 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
557 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
558 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
559 debconf specification.
560 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
561 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
563 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
565 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
567 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
568 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
569 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
570 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
571 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
573 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
575 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
576 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
577 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
578 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
579 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
581 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
582 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
583 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
584 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
585 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
586 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
587 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
588 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
589 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
590 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
591 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
592 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
593 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
594 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
595 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
596 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
598 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
600 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
601 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
602 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
603 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
604 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
605 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
606 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
607 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
609 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
611 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
613 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
614 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
615 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
616 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
617 Polo (Closes: #372497).
618 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
619 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
621 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
622 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
623 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
624 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
625 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
626 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
627 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
628 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
629 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
630 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
632 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
633 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
634 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
635 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
636 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
637 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
639 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
641 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
643 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
644 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
645 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
646 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
648 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
649 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
651 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
653 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
655 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
656 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
657 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
658 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
659 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
660 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
661 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
662 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
663 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
664 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
666 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
667 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
668 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
669 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
670 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
671 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
672 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
673 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
674 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
675 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
676 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
679 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
681 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
683 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
684 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
685 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
686 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
687 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
688 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
689 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
690 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
691 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
692 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
693 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
694 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
695 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
696 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
697 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
698 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
699 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
700 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
701 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
702 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
703 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
704 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
705 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
706 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
707 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
708 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
709 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
710 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
712 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
713 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
714 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
715 Hess (Closes: #362247).
716 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
717 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
718 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
719 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
720 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
721 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
722 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
723 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
724 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
725 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
726 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
727 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
729 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
730 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
732 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
733 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
734 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
735 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
736 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
737 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
738 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
739 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
740 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
741 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
742 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
744 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
746 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
749 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
750 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
751 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
752 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
753 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
754 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
755 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
756 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
757 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
758 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
759 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
760 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
761 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
763 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
764 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
765 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
766 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
767 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
768 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
769 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
770 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
771 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
772 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
773 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
774 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
775 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
776 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
777 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
778 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
779 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
780 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
781 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
784 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
786 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
788 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
789 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
790 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
791 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
793 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
794 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
795 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
796 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
798 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
800 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
803 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
804 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
805 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
806 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
807 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
808 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
809 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
810 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
811 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
812 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
814 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
815 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
816 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
818 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
819 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
820 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
821 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
822 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
823 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
824 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
826 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
827 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
828 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
829 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
831 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
832 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
833 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
834 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
835 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
836 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
837 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
838 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
840 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
841 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
842 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
843 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
844 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
845 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
846 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
847 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
848 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
849 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
850 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
851 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
852 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
853 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
854 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
855 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
856 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
858 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
860 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
863 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
864 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
865 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
866 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
867 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
868 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
869 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
870 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
871 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
873 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
874 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
875 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
876 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
877 this section. closes: Bug#248618
878 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
879 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
880 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
881 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
882 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
883 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
884 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
885 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
886 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
887 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
888 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
889 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
891 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
892 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
893 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
896 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
897 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
898 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
900 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
901 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
902 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
903 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
904 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
905 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
907 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
908 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
910 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
911 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
912 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
913 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
914 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
915 Closes: #185943, #237049
917 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
919 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
922 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
925 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
926 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
927 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
928 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
929 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
930 running. closes: Bug#187250
931 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
932 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
933 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
934 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
935 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
936 user closes: Bug#176506
938 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
940 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
943 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
944 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
945 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
946 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
947 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
948 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
949 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
950 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
951 deb-building toolchain.
952 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
953 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
954 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
955 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
956 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
957 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
958 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
959 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
960 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
961 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
962 sections about changelog files.
964 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
965 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
966 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
967 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
968 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
969 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
971 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
972 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
973 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
974 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
975 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
976 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
977 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
978 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
979 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
980 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
981 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
982 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
983 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
984 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
985 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
986 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
987 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
988 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
989 for the restructuring
991 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
993 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
996 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
998 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
999 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1000 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1001 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1002 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1003 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1005 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1006 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1007 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1008 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1009 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1010 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1011 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1013 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1014 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1015 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1016 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1018 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1020 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1023 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1024 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1025 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1026 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1027 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1028 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1030 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1031 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1032 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1033 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1035 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1036 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1037 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1038 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1039 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1040 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1041 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1042 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1043 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1044 offtopic stuff, too.
1045 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1046 script should start it, closes: #60979
1047 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1048 "should", closes: #170019
1049 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1050 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1051 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1052 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1053 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1054 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1055 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1056 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1059 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1061 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1065 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1066 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1067 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1068 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1069 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1070 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1071 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1072 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1074 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1075 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1076 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1077 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1078 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1079 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1080 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1081 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1082 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1084 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1085 file, closes: Bug#65764
1087 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1089 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1092 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1093 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1094 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1095 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1096 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1097 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1098 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1099 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1100 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1101 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1102 details. closes: Bug#133030
1103 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1104 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1105 parts of Bug#161455.
1107 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1109 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1112 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1113 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1114 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1115 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1116 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1117 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1118 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1119 not. closes: Bug#139820
1120 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1121 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1122 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1123 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1124 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1125 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1126 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1127 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1128 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1129 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1131 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1133 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1134 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1135 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1136 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1137 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1138 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1139 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1140 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1141 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1142 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1143 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1144 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1145 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1146 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1147 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1148 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1149 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1150 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1151 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1152 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1154 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1155 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1156 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1157 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1158 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1159 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1160 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1162 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1163 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1164 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1165 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1166 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1167 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1168 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1169 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1170 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1172 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1174 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1176 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1177 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1178 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1179 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1180 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1181 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1182 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1183 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1184 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1185 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1186 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1187 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1188 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1189 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1190 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1191 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1192 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1193 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1194 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1195 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1196 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1197 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1198 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1200 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1202 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1204 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1205 medium, high, emergency.
1206 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1207 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1208 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1209 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1210 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1213 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1214 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1215 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1217 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1218 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1219 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1220 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1221 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1222 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1223 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1226 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1228 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1231 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1232 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1233 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1235 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1236 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1237 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1238 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1239 debian/rules to do this
1240 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1241 patches are incorporated upstream
1242 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1243 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1244 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1245 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1246 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1247 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1249 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1250 system closes: Bug#91249
1251 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1252 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1253 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1254 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1255 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1256 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1257 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1258 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1259 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1260 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1261 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1262 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1263 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1265 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1267 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1270 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1271 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1272 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1274 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1275 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1276 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1278 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1281 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1283 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1286 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1287 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1288 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1289 package for the time being
1290 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1291 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1292 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1293 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1294 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1295 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1296 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1297 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1298 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1299 Build-Depends arch syntax
1300 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1302 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1303 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1305 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1306 from policy maintenance duties.
1307 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1308 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1310 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1312 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1314 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1316 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1318 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1321 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1322 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1323 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1324 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1325 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1326 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1327 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1328 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1329 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1330 minor version number for this
1331 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1332 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1333 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1334 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1335 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1336 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1337 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1338 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1339 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1341 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1343 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1346 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1347 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1348 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1349 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1351 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1353 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1354 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1355 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1356 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1357 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1358 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1359 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1360 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1361 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1362 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1363 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1364 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1365 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1366 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1367 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1368 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1371 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1373 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1376 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1378 * Document the Enhances relationship
1379 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1380 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1381 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1382 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1383 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1384 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1386 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1388 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1389 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1390 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1391 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1393 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1394 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1395 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1396 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1397 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1399 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1401 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1403 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1404 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1405 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1407 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1408 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1409 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1410 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1411 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1412 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1413 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1414 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1415 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1417 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1419 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1421 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1424 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1425 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1426 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1427 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1428 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1429 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1430 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1431 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1432 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1433 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1434 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1435 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1436 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1437 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1438 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1439 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1440 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1441 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1442 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1443 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1444 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1446 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1447 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1449 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1451 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1453 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1454 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1455 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1456 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1457 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1458 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1459 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1460 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1461 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1462 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1463 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1464 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1465 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1466 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1467 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1468 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1469 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1470 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1471 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1472 list closes: Bug#53756
1473 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1474 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1475 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1476 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1477 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1478 policy closes: Bug#53760
1479 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1480 policy closes: Bug#53761
1481 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1482 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1483 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1484 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1485 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1486 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1487 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1488 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1489 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1490 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1491 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1493 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1494 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1495 to install with older fileutils.
1496 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1497 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1498 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1499 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1501 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1502 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1504 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1506 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1509 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1511 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1513 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1516 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1518 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1521 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1524 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1526 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1528 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1530 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1532 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1533 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1535 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1537 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1539 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1540 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1541 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1542 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1543 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1544 directoried (closes: #41547)
1545 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1546 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1547 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1548 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1549 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1550 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1551 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1552 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1553 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1554 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1555 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1557 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1558 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1559 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1560 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1561 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1562 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1563 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1565 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1566 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1567 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1568 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1570 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1572 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1574 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1575 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1577 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1579 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1582 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1584 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1586 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1589 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1591 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1592 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1593 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1594 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1595 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1596 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1597 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1598 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1599 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1600 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1601 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1602 this closes: Bug#38612
1603 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1604 before. closes: Bug#40864
1606 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1608 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1611 officially uploaded.
1612 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1614 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1615 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1616 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1618 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1619 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1620 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1621 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1622 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1623 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1625 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1626 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1627 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1629 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1631 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1632 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1633 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1634 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1635 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1637 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1639 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1642 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1643 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1644 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1645 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1646 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1647 there). closes: Bug#34233
1648 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1649 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1650 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1651 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1652 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1654 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1656 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1659 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1660 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1661 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1664 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1665 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1666 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1667 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1668 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1671 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1672 number. closes: BUG#25911
1674 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1675 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1676 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1677 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1678 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1679 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1681 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1682 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1683 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1686 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1687 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1688 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1690 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1691 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1692 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1693 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1695 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1696 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1697 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1699 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1701 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1702 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1703 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1704 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1705 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1706 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1707 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1708 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1711 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1713 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1714 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1717 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1719 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1723 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1725 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1728 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1729 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1730 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1731 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1732 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1733 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1734 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1736 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1737 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1739 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1741 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1743 * non-maintainer release
1744 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1745 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1747 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1748 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1749 * no content changes
1750 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1752 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1754 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1758 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1760 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1762 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1764 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1765 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1766 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1768 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1769 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1771 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1772 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1773 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1774 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1776 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1777 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1778 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1779 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1780 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1781 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1782 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1784 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1785 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1786 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1789 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1790 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1791 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1793 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1794 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1795 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1797 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1798 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1800 * New version numbering scheme:
1802 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1803 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1804 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1807 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1808 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1809 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1810 differ between the manuals.
1812 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1813 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1814 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1815 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1817 * Packaging changes:
1819 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1820 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1822 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1824 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1826 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1828 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1830 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1831 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1832 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1834 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1835 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1838 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1839 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1840 file extension as the referenced file
1842 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1843 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1845 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1846 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1847 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1848 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1851 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1852 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1853 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1855 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1856 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1857 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1858 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1861 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1862 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
1865 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
1866 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
1867 reasonable default configuration
1869 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
1870 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
1871 by all news servers and clients
1873 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
1874 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
1875 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
1876 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
1877 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
1879 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1880 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
1883 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
1885 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1886 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
1888 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
1891 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
1892 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
1894 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
1895 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
1897 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1899 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
1901 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1904 - X library package is now called xlib6g
1905 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1906 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
1908 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
1910 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
1911 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
1912 * Don't use debstd anymore
1914 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
1916 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1919 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
1920 contrib/non-free policy
1921 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
1922 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
1923 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
1924 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
1925 - new section about `Daemons'
1926 - updated section about `Configuration files'
1927 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
1928 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
1929 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1930 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
1931 * Paper about libc6 migration:
1932 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
1933 * SGML source code included in package
1934 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
1936 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
1938 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1941 - completely reworked structure
1942 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
1943 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
1944 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
1945 - removed all those ugly footnotes
1946 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
1947 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
1948 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
1949 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
1950 - mention "orphaned packages"
1951 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
1952 distributions' policy
1953 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
1954 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
1955 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
1956 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
1957 - added section about arch spec strings
1958 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
1959 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
1960 - added section about "menus"
1961 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
1962 the new documentation policy soon
1963 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
1964 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
1966 - added section about editors and pagers
1967 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
1968 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
1969 - added section about device files
1970 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
1971 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
1972 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
1974 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
1975 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
1976 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
1977 - Added new section about obsolete names
1978 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
1979 * Fixed package's description
1981 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
1983 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1985 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
1987 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
1989 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1991 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
1992 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
1993 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
1994 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
1996 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
1998 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2000 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2001 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2002 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2004 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2005 and upload it "byhand" too.
2007 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2009 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2013 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2014 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2015 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2016 functionality must not have the same name.
2017 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2018 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2019 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2020 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2021 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2022 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2023 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2025 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2026 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2027 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2028 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2029 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2030 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2031 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2032 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2035 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2037 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2039 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2041 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2042 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2043 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2044 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2045 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2048 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2050 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2052 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2054 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2055 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2056 description of deb file format.
2057 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2058 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2060 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2062 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2063 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2065 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2067 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2069 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2070 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2071 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2072 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2073 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2074 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2075 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2076 packages in section on Procedure
2077 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2078 a package maintainer
2079 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2080 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2081 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2083 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2084 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2085 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2086 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2087 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2088 on various shlib files
2089 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2090 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2091 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2093 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2095 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2097 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2098 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2099 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2101 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2102 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2103 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2104 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2105 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2107 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2109 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2111 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2113 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2115 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2116 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2117 compatibility go in contrib.
2119 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2120 instructions in policy manual.
2121 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2124 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2126 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2128 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2129 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2130 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2131 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2133 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2134 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2137 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2139 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2141 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2142 * More detail about changelog format names.
2144 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2145 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2149 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2151 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2153 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2155 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2157 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2159 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2161 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2163 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2164 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2165 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2167 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2169 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2171 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2173 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2175 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2179 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100