1 debian-policy (3.7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
4 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
5 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
7 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
9 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
10 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
11 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
12 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
13 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
14 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
15 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
17 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
18 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
19 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
20 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
22 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
23 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
24 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
25 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
26 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
27 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
28 currently part of policy.
29 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
33 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
35 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
36 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
37 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
38 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
39 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
40 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
41 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
42 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
43 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
44 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
45 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
46 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
47 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
48 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
49 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
50 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
52 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
54 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
55 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
56 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
58 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
59 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
60 list?" (Closes: #412634).
61 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
62 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
63 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
64 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
65 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
66 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
67 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
68 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
69 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
70 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
71 debconf specification.
72 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
73 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
75 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
77 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
79 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
80 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
81 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
82 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
83 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
85 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
87 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
88 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
89 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
90 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
91 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
93 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
94 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
95 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
96 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
97 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
98 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
99 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
100 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
101 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
102 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
103 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
104 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
105 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
106 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
107 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
108 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
110 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
112 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
113 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
114 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
115 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
116 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
117 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
118 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
119 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
121 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
123 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
125 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
126 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
127 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
128 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
129 Polo (Closes: #372497).
130 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
131 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
133 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
134 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
135 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
136 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
137 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
138 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
139 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
140 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
141 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
142 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
144 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
145 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
146 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
147 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
148 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
149 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
151 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
153 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
155 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
156 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
157 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
158 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
160 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
161 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
163 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
165 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
167 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
168 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
169 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
170 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
171 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
172 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
173 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
174 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
175 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
176 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
178 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
179 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
180 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
181 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
182 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
183 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
184 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
185 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
186 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
187 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
188 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
191 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
193 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
195 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
196 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
197 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
198 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
199 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
200 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
201 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
202 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
203 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
204 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
205 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
206 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
207 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
208 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
209 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
210 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
211 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
212 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
213 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
214 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
215 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
216 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
217 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
218 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
219 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
220 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
221 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
222 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
224 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
225 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
226 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
227 Hess (Closes: #362247).
228 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
229 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
230 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
231 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
232 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
233 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
234 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
235 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
236 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
237 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
238 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
239 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
241 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
242 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
244 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
245 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
246 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
247 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
248 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
249 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
250 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
251 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
252 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
253 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
254 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
256 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
258 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
261 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
262 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
263 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
264 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
265 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
266 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
267 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
268 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
269 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
270 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
271 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
272 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
273 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
275 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
276 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
277 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
278 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
279 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
280 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
281 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
282 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
283 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
284 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
285 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
286 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
287 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
288 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
289 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
290 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
291 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
292 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
293 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
296 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
298 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
300 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
301 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
302 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
303 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
305 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
306 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
307 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
308 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
310 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
312 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
315 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
316 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
317 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
318 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
319 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
320 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
321 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
322 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
323 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
324 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
326 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
327 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
328 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
330 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
331 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
332 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
333 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
334 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
335 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
336 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
338 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
339 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
340 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
341 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
343 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
344 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
345 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
346 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
347 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
348 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
349 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
350 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
352 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
353 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
354 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
355 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
356 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
357 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
358 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
359 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
360 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
361 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
362 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
363 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
364 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
365 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
366 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
367 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
368 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
370 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
372 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
375 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
376 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
377 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
378 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
379 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
380 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
381 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
382 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
383 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
385 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
386 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
387 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
388 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
389 this section. closes: Bug#248618
390 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
391 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
392 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
393 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
394 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
395 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
396 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
397 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
398 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
399 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
400 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
401 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
403 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
404 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
405 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
408 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
409 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
410 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
412 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
413 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
414 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
415 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
416 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
417 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
419 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
420 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
422 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
423 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
424 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
425 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
426 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
427 Closes: #185943, #237049
429 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
431 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
434 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
437 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
438 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
439 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
440 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
441 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
442 running. closes: Bug#187250
443 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
444 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
445 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
446 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
447 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
448 user closes: Bug#176506
450 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
452 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
455 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
456 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
457 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
458 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
459 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
460 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
461 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
462 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
463 deb-building toolchain.
464 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
465 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
466 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
467 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
468 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
469 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
470 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
471 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
472 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
473 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
474 sections about changelog files.
476 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
477 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
478 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
479 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
480 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
481 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
483 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
484 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
485 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
486 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
487 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
488 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
489 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
490 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
491 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
492 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
493 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
494 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
495 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
496 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
497 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
498 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
499 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
500 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
501 for the restructuring
503 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
505 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
508 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
510 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
511 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
512 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
513 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
514 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
515 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
517 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
518 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
519 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
520 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
521 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
522 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
523 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
525 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
526 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
527 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
528 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
530 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
532 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
535 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
536 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
537 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
538 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
539 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
540 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
542 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
543 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
544 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
545 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
547 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
548 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
549 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
550 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
551 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
552 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
553 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
554 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
555 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
557 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
558 script should start it, closes: #60979
559 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
560 "should", closes: #170019
561 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
562 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
563 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
564 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
565 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
566 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
567 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
568 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
571 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
573 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
576 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
577 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
578 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
579 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
580 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
581 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
582 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
583 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
584 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
586 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
587 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
588 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
589 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
590 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
591 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
592 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
593 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
594 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
596 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
597 file, closes: Bug#65764
599 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
601 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
603 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
604 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
605 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
606 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
607 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
608 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
609 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
610 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
611 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
612 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
613 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
614 details. closes: Bug#133030
615 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
616 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
619 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
621 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
623 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
624 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
625 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
626 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
627 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
628 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
629 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
630 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
631 not. closes: Bug#139820
632 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
633 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
634 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
635 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
636 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
637 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
638 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
639 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
640 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
641 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
643 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
645 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
646 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
647 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
648 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
649 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
650 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
651 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
652 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
653 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
654 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
655 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
656 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
657 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
658 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
659 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
660 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
661 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
662 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
663 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
664 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
666 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
667 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
668 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
669 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
670 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
671 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
672 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
674 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
675 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
676 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
677 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
678 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
679 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
680 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
681 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
682 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
684 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
686 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
688 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
689 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
690 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
691 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
692 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
693 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
694 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
695 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
696 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
697 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
698 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
699 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
700 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
701 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
702 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
703 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
704 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
705 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
706 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
707 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
708 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
709 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
710 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
712 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
714 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
716 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
717 medium, high, emergency.
718 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
719 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
720 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
721 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
722 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
725 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
726 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
727 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
729 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
730 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
731 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
732 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
733 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
734 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
735 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
738 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
740 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
742 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
743 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
744 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
745 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
747 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
748 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
749 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
750 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
751 debian/rules to do this
752 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
753 patches are incorporated upstream
754 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
755 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
756 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
757 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
758 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
759 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
761 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
762 system closes: Bug#91249
763 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
764 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
765 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
766 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
767 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
768 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
769 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
770 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
771 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
772 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
773 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
774 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
775 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
777 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
779 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
781 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
782 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
783 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
784 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
786 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
787 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
788 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
790 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
793 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
795 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
797 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
798 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
799 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
800 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
801 package for the time being
802 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
803 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
804 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
805 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
806 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
807 * Rename all .text files as .txt
808 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
809 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
810 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
811 Build-Depends arch syntax
812 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
814 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
815 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
817 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
818 from policy maintenance duties.
819 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
820 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
822 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
824 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
826 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
828 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
830 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
832 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
833 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
834 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
835 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
836 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
837 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
838 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
839 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
840 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
841 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
842 minor version number for this
843 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
844 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
845 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
846 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
847 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
848 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
849 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
850 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
851 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
853 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
855 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
857 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
858 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
859 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
860 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
861 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
863 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
865 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
866 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
867 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
868 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
869 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
870 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
871 xutils closes: Bug#82966
872 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
873 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
874 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
875 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
876 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
877 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
878 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
879 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
880 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
883 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
885 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
887 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
888 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
890 * Document the Enhances relationship
891 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
892 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
893 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
894 policy. closes: Bug#53496
895 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
896 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
898 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
900 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
901 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
902 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
903 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
905 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
906 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
907 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
908 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
909 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
911 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
913 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
915 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
916 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
917 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
919 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
920 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
921 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
922 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
923 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
924 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
925 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
926 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
927 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
929 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
931 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
933 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
935 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
936 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
937 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
938 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
939 policy. closes: Bug#64437
940 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
941 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
942 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
943 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
944 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
945 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
946 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
947 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
948 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
949 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
950 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
951 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
952 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
953 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
954 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
955 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
956 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
958 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
959 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
961 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
963 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
965 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
966 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
967 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
968 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
969 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
970 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
971 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
972 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
973 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
974 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
975 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
976 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
977 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
978 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
979 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
980 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
981 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
982 alternative closes: Bug#53755
983 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
984 list closes: Bug#53756
985 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
986 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
987 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
988 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
989 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
990 policy closes: Bug#53760
991 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
992 policy closes: Bug#53761
993 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
994 that use X closes: Bug#53762
995 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
996 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
997 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
998 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
999 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1000 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1001 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1002 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1003 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1005 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1006 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1007 to install with older fileutils.
1008 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1009 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1010 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1011 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1013 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1014 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1016 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1018 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1021 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1023 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1025 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1028 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1030 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1033 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1035 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1036 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1038 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1040 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1042 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1045 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1047 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1049 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1052 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1053 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1054 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1055 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1056 directoried (closes: #41547)
1057 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1058 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1059 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1060 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1061 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1062 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1063 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1064 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1065 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1066 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1067 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1069 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1070 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1071 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1072 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1073 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1074 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1075 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1077 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1078 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1079 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1080 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1082 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1084 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1086 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1087 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1089 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1091 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1093 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1094 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1096 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1098 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1100 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1101 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1103 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1104 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1105 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1106 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1107 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1108 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1109 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1110 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1111 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1112 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1113 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1114 this closes: Bug#38612
1115 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1116 before. closes: Bug#40864
1118 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1120 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1122 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1123 officially uploaded.
1124 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1126 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1127 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1128 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1130 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1131 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1132 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1133 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1134 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1135 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1137 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1138 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1139 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1141 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1143 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1144 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1145 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1146 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1147 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1149 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1151 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1154 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1155 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1156 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1157 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1158 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1159 there). closes: Bug#34233
1160 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1161 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1162 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1163 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1164 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1166 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1168 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1171 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1172 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1173 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1176 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1177 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1178 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1179 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1180 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1183 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1184 number. closes: BUG#25911
1186 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1187 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1188 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1189 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1190 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1191 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1193 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1194 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1195 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1198 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1199 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1200 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1202 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1203 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1204 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1205 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1207 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1208 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1209 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1211 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1213 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1214 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1215 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1216 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1217 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1218 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1219 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1220 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1223 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1225 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1226 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1229 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1231 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1233 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1235 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1237 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1240 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1241 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1242 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1243 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1244 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1245 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1246 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1248 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1249 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1251 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1253 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1255 * non-maintainer release
1256 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1257 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1259 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1260 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1261 * no content changes
1262 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1264 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1266 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1270 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1272 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1274 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1276 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1277 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1278 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1280 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1281 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1283 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1284 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1285 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1286 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1288 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1289 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1290 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1291 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1292 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1293 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1294 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1296 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1297 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1298 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1301 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1302 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1303 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1305 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1306 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1307 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1309 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1310 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1312 * New version numbering scheme:
1314 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1315 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1316 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1319 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1320 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1321 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1322 differ between the manuals.
1324 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1325 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1326 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1327 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1329 * Packaging changes:
1331 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1332 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1334 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1336 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1338 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1342 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1343 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1344 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1346 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1347 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1350 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1351 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1352 file extension as the referenced file
1354 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1355 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1357 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1358 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1359 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1360 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1363 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1364 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1365 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1367 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1368 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1369 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1370 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1373 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1374 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
1377 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
1378 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
1379 reasonable default configuration
1381 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
1382 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
1383 by all news servers and clients
1385 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
1386 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
1387 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
1388 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
1389 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
1391 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1392 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
1395 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
1397 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1398 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
1400 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
1403 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
1404 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
1406 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
1407 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
1409 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1411 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
1413 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1416 - X library package is now called xlib6g
1417 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1418 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
1420 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
1422 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
1423 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
1424 * Don't use debstd anymore
1426 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
1428 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1431 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
1432 contrib/non-free policy
1433 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
1434 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
1435 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
1436 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
1437 - new section about `Daemons'
1438 - updated section about `Configuration files'
1439 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
1440 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
1441 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1442 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
1443 * Paper about libc6 migration:
1444 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
1445 * SGML source code included in package
1446 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
1448 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
1450 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1453 - completely reworked structure
1454 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
1455 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
1456 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
1457 - removed all those ugly footnotes
1458 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
1459 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
1460 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
1461 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
1462 - mention "orphaned packages"
1463 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
1464 distributions' policy
1465 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
1466 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
1467 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
1468 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
1469 - added section about arch spec strings
1470 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
1471 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
1472 - added section about "menus"
1473 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
1474 the new documentation policy soon
1475 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
1476 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
1478 - added section about editors and pagers
1479 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
1480 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
1481 - added section about device files
1482 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
1483 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
1484 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
1486 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
1487 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
1488 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
1489 - Added new section about obsolete names
1490 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
1491 * Fixed package's description
1493 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
1495 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1497 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
1499 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
1501 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1503 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
1504 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
1505 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
1506 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
1508 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
1510 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1512 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
1513 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
1514 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
1516 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
1517 and upload it "byhand" too.
1519 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
1521 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
1525 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
1526 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
1527 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
1528 functionality must not have the same name.
1529 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
1530 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
1531 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
1532 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
1533 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
1534 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
1535 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
1537 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
1538 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
1539 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
1540 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
1541 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
1542 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
1543 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
1544 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
1547 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
1549 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
1551 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
1553 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
1554 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
1555 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
1556 a package into. (Guy Maor)
1557 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
1560 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
1562 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
1564 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
1566 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
1567 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
1568 description of deb file format.
1569 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
1570 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
1572 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
1574 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
1575 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
1577 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
1579 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
1581 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
1582 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
1583 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
1584 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
1585 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
1586 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
1587 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
1588 packages in section on Procedure
1589 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
1590 a package maintainer
1591 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
1592 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
1593 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
1595 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
1596 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
1597 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
1598 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
1599 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
1600 on various shlib files
1601 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
1602 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
1603 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
1605 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
1607 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
1609 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
1610 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
1611 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
1613 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
1614 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
1615 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
1616 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
1617 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
1619 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
1621 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
1623 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
1625 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
1627 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
1628 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
1629 compatibility go in contrib.
1631 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
1632 instructions in policy manual.
1633 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
1636 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
1638 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
1640 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
1641 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
1642 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
1643 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
1645 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
1646 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
1649 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
1651 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
1653 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
1654 * More detail about changelog format names.
1656 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
1657 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
1661 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
1663 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
1665 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
1667 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
1669 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
1671 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
1673 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
1675 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
1676 * More verbosity about netiquette.
1677 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
1679 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
1681 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
1683 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
1685 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
1687 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
1691 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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