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 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
66 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
67 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
68 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
69 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
71 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
72 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
73 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
74 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
76 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
77 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
78 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
79 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
80 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
81 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
82 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
83 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
84 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
85 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
86 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
87 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
88 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
89 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
90 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
91 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
92 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
93 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
94 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
95 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
96 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
97 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
98 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
99 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
100 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
101 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
102 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
103 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
104 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
105 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
107 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Mon, 31 May 2010 20:00:28 +0200
109 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
112 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
113 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
115 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
116 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
120 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
123 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
124 Wording: Steve Langasek.
125 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
126 Seconded: Julien Cristau
127 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
130 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
131 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
132 Seconded: Russ Allbery
133 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
136 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
137 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
138 Seconded: Russ Allbery
140 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
141 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
142 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
143 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
144 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
145 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
146 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
147 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
148 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
150 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
151 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
152 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
153 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
154 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
155 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
156 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
157 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
158 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
159 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
160 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
161 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
162 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
163 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
164 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
165 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
167 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
168 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
169 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
170 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
171 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
173 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
176 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
177 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
178 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
179 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
180 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
181 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
184 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
186 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
188 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
189 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
190 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
191 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
193 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
194 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
195 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
196 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
198 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
199 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
200 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
201 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
203 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
204 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
205 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
206 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
207 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
208 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
210 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
211 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
212 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
213 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
214 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
216 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
217 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
218 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
219 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
221 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
222 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
223 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
224 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
226 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
227 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
228 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
229 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
231 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
232 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
233 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
234 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
236 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
237 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
238 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
239 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
241 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
242 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
243 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
244 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
245 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
246 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
247 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
248 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
249 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
250 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
251 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
252 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
253 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
254 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
255 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
257 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
258 Source field descriptions.
259 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
260 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
261 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
262 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
263 description says otherwise.
265 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
267 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
270 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
271 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
272 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
273 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
274 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
275 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
277 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
278 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
279 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
280 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
282 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
283 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
284 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
285 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
287 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
288 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
289 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
290 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
292 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
293 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
294 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
295 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
299 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
300 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
301 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
302 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
303 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
305 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
306 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
307 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
308 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
310 * Add myself to Uploaders.
313 * Add myself to Uploaders.
314 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
316 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
317 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
318 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
320 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
322 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
324 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
325 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
326 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
327 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
329 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
330 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
331 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
332 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
334 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
335 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
336 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
337 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
339 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
340 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
341 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
342 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
344 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
345 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
346 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
347 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
349 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
350 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
351 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
352 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
354 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
355 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
356 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
357 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
359 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
360 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
361 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
362 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
364 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
365 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
366 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
367 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
369 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
370 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
371 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
372 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
374 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
375 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
376 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
377 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
378 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
380 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
381 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
382 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
383 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
384 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
385 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
386 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
387 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
388 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
389 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
390 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
391 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
392 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
393 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
394 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
395 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
396 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
397 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
398 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
399 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
400 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
401 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
402 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
403 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
404 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
405 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
406 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
407 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
408 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
409 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
411 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
412 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
413 links was completed long ago.
414 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
416 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
418 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
420 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
421 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
423 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
425 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
427 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
428 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
429 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
430 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
431 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
432 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
433 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
434 Millan (Closes: #209008).
435 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
436 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
438 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
440 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
442 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
443 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
444 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
445 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
446 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
447 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
448 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
450 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
451 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
452 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
453 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
455 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
456 Küster (Closes: #403391).
457 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
458 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
459 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
460 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
461 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
462 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
463 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
464 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
465 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
466 Closes: #186700, #458910
467 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
468 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
469 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
471 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
472 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
473 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
474 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
475 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
476 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
477 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
478 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
480 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
481 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
483 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
484 * Add an md5sums control file.
485 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
486 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
487 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
488 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
489 currently part of policy.
490 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
491 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
492 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
495 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
497 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
499 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
500 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
501 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
502 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
503 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
504 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
505 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
506 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
507 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
508 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
509 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
510 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
511 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
512 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
513 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
514 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
516 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
518 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
519 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
520 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
522 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
523 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
524 list?" (Closes: #412634).
525 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
526 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
527 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
528 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
529 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
530 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
531 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
532 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
533 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
534 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
535 debconf specification.
536 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
537 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
539 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
541 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
543 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
544 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
545 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
546 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
547 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
549 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
551 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
552 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
553 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
554 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
555 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
557 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
558 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
559 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
560 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
561 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
562 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
563 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
564 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
565 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
566 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
567 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
568 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
569 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
570 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
571 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
572 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
574 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
576 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
577 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
578 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
579 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
580 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
581 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
582 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
583 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
585 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
587 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
589 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
590 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
591 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
592 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
593 Polo (Closes: #372497).
594 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
595 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
597 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
598 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
599 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
600 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
601 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
602 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
603 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
604 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
605 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
606 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
608 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
609 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
610 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
611 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
612 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
613 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
615 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
617 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
619 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
620 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
621 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
622 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
624 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
625 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
627 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
629 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
631 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
632 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
633 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
634 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
635 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
636 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
637 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
638 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
639 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
640 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
642 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
643 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
644 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
645 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
646 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
647 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
648 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
649 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
650 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
651 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
652 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
655 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
657 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
659 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
660 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
661 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
662 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
663 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
664 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
665 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
666 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
667 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
668 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
669 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
670 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
671 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
672 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
673 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
674 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
675 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
676 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
677 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
678 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
679 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
680 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
681 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
682 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
683 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
684 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
685 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
686 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
688 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
689 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
690 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
691 Hess (Closes: #362247).
692 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
693 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
694 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
695 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
696 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
697 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
698 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
699 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
700 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
701 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
702 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
703 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
705 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
706 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
708 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
709 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
710 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
711 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
712 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
713 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
714 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
715 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
716 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
717 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
718 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
720 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
722 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
725 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
726 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
727 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
728 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
729 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
730 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
731 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
732 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
733 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
734 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
735 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
736 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
737 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
739 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
740 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
741 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
742 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
743 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
744 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
745 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
746 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
747 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
748 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
749 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
750 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
751 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
752 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
753 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
754 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
755 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
756 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
757 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
760 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
762 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
764 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
765 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
766 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
767 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
769 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
770 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
771 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
772 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
774 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
776 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
779 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
780 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
781 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
782 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
783 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
784 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
785 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
786 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
787 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
788 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
790 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
791 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
792 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
794 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
795 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
796 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
797 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
798 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
799 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
800 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
802 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
803 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
804 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
805 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
807 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
808 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
809 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
810 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
811 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
812 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
813 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
814 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
816 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
817 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
818 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
819 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
820 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
821 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
822 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
823 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
824 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
825 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
826 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
827 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
828 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
829 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
830 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
831 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
832 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
834 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
836 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
839 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
840 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
841 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
842 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
843 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
844 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
845 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
846 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
847 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
849 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
850 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
851 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
852 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
853 this section. closes: Bug#248618
854 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
855 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
856 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
857 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
858 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
859 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
860 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
861 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
862 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
863 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
864 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
865 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
867 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
868 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
869 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
872 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
873 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
874 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
876 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
877 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
878 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
879 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
880 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
881 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
883 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
884 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
886 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
887 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
888 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
889 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
890 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
891 Closes: #185943, #237049
893 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
895 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
898 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
901 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
902 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
903 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
904 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
905 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
906 running. closes: Bug#187250
907 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
908 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
909 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
910 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
911 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
912 user closes: Bug#176506
914 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
916 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
919 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
920 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
921 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
922 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
923 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
924 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
925 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
926 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
927 deb-building toolchain.
928 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
929 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
930 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
931 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
932 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
933 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
934 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
935 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
936 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
937 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
938 sections about changelog files.
940 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
941 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
942 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
943 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
944 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
945 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
947 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
948 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
949 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
950 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
951 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
952 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
953 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
954 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
955 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
956 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
957 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
958 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
959 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
960 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
961 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
962 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
963 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
964 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
965 for the restructuring
967 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
969 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
972 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
974 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
975 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
976 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
977 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
978 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
979 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
981 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
982 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
983 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
984 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
985 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
986 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
987 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
989 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
990 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
991 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
992 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
994 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
996 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
999 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1000 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1001 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1002 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1003 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1004 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1006 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1007 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1008 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1009 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1011 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1012 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1013 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1014 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1015 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1016 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1017 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1018 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1019 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1020 offtopic stuff, too.
1021 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1022 script should start it, closes: #60979
1023 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1024 "should", closes: #170019
1025 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1026 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1027 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1028 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1029 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1030 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1031 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1032 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1035 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1037 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1041 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1042 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1043 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1044 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1045 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1046 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1047 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1048 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1050 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1051 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1052 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1053 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1054 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1055 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1056 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1057 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1058 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1060 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1061 file, closes: Bug#65764
1063 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1065 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1068 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1069 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1070 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1071 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1072 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1073 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1074 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1075 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1076 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1077 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1078 details. closes: Bug#133030
1079 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1080 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1081 parts of Bug#161455.
1083 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1085 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1087 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1088 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1089 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1090 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1091 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1092 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1093 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1094 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1095 not. closes: Bug#139820
1096 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1097 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1098 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1099 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1100 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1101 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1102 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1103 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1104 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1105 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1107 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1109 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1110 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1111 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1112 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1113 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1114 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1115 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1116 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1117 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1118 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1119 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1120 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1121 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1122 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1123 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1124 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1125 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1126 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1127 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1128 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1130 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1131 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1132 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1133 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1134 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1135 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1136 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1138 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1139 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1140 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1141 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1142 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1143 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1144 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1145 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1146 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1148 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1150 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1153 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1154 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1155 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1156 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1157 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1158 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1159 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1160 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1161 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1162 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1163 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1164 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1165 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1166 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1167 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1168 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1169 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1170 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1171 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1172 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1173 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1174 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1176 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1178 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1181 medium, high, emergency.
1182 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1183 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1184 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1185 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1186 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1189 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1190 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1191 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1193 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1194 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1195 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1196 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1197 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1198 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1199 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1202 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1204 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1207 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1208 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1209 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1211 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1212 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1213 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1214 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1215 debian/rules to do this
1216 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1217 patches are incorporated upstream
1218 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1219 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1220 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1221 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1222 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1223 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1225 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1226 system closes: Bug#91249
1227 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1228 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1229 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1230 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1231 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1232 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1233 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1234 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1235 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1236 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1237 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1238 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1239 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1241 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1243 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1246 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1247 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1248 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1250 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1251 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1252 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1254 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1257 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1259 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1262 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1263 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1264 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1265 package for the time being
1266 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1267 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1268 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1269 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1270 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1271 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1272 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1273 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1274 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1275 Build-Depends arch syntax
1276 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1278 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1279 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1281 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1282 from policy maintenance duties.
1283 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1284 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1286 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1288 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1292 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1294 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1297 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1298 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1299 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1300 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1301 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1302 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1303 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1304 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1305 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1306 minor version number for this
1307 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1308 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1309 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1310 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1311 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1312 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1313 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1314 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1315 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1317 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1319 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1321 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1322 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1323 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1324 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1325 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1327 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1329 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1330 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1331 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1332 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1333 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1334 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1335 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1336 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1337 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1338 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1339 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1340 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1341 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1342 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1343 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1344 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1347 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1349 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1352 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1354 * Document the Enhances relationship
1355 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1356 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1357 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1358 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1359 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1360 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1362 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1364 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1365 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1366 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1367 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1369 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1370 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1371 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1372 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1373 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1375 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1377 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1379 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1380 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1381 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1383 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1384 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1385 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1386 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1387 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1388 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1389 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1390 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1391 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1393 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1395 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1397 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1400 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1401 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1402 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1403 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1404 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1405 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1406 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1407 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1408 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1409 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1410 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1411 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1412 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1413 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1414 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1415 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1416 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1417 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1418 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1419 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1420 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1422 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1423 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1425 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1427 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1429 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1430 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1431 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1432 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1433 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1434 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1435 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1436 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1437 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1438 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1439 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1440 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1441 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1442 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1443 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1444 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1445 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1446 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1447 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1448 list closes: Bug#53756
1449 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1450 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1451 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1452 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1453 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1454 policy closes: Bug#53760
1455 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1456 policy closes: Bug#53761
1457 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1458 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1459 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1460 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1461 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1462 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1463 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1464 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1465 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1466 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1467 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1469 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1470 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1471 to install with older fileutils.
1472 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1473 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1474 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1475 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1477 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1478 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1480 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1482 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1485 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1487 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1489 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1492 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1494 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1497 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1500 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1502 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1504 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1506 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1509 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1511 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1513 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1516 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1517 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1518 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1519 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1520 directoried (closes: #41547)
1521 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1522 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1523 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1524 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1525 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1526 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1527 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1528 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1529 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1530 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1531 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1533 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1534 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1535 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1536 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1537 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1538 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1539 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1541 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1542 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1543 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1544 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1546 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1548 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1550 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1551 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1553 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1555 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1558 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1560 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1562 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1565 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1567 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1568 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1569 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1570 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1571 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1572 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1573 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1574 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1575 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1576 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1577 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1578 this closes: Bug#38612
1579 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1580 before. closes: Bug#40864
1582 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1584 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1587 officially uploaded.
1588 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1590 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1591 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1592 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1594 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1595 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1596 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1597 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1598 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1599 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1601 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1602 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1603 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1605 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1607 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1608 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1609 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1610 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1611 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1613 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1615 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1618 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1619 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1620 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1621 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1622 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1623 there). closes: Bug#34233
1624 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1625 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1626 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1627 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1628 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1630 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1632 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1635 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1636 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1637 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1640 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1641 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1642 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1643 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1644 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1647 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1648 number. closes: BUG#25911
1650 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1651 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1652 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1653 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1654 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1655 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1657 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1658 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1659 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1662 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1663 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1664 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1666 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1667 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1668 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1669 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1671 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1672 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1673 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1675 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1677 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1678 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1679 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1680 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1681 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1682 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1683 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1684 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1687 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1689 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1690 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1693 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1695 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1699 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1701 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1704 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1705 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1706 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1707 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1708 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1709 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1710 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1712 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1713 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1715 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1717 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1719 * non-maintainer release
1720 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1721 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1723 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1724 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1725 * no content changes
1726 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1728 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1730 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1734 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1736 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1738 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1740 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1741 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1742 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1744 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1745 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1747 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1748 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1749 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1750 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1752 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1753 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1754 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1755 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1756 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1757 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1758 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1760 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1761 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1762 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1765 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1766 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1767 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1769 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1770 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1771 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1773 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1774 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1776 * New version numbering scheme:
1778 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1779 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1780 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1783 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1784 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1785 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1786 differ between the manuals.
1788 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1789 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1790 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1791 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1793 * Packaging changes:
1795 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1796 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1798 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1800 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1802 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1806 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1807 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1808 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1810 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1811 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1814 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1815 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1816 file extension as the referenced file
1818 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1819 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1821 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1822 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1823 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1824 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1827 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1828 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1829 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1831 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1832 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1833 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1834 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1837 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1838 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
1841 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
1842 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
1843 reasonable default configuration
1845 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
1846 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
1847 by all news servers and clients
1849 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
1850 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
1851 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
1852 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
1853 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
1855 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1856 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
1859 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
1861 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1862 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
1864 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
1867 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
1868 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
1870 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
1871 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
1873 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1875 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
1877 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1880 - X library package is now called xlib6g
1881 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1882 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
1884 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
1886 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
1887 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
1888 * Don't use debstd anymore
1890 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
1892 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1895 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
1896 contrib/non-free policy
1897 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
1898 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
1899 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
1900 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
1901 - new section about `Daemons'
1902 - updated section about `Configuration files'
1903 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
1904 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
1905 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1906 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
1907 * Paper about libc6 migration:
1908 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
1909 * SGML source code included in package
1910 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
1912 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
1914 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1917 - completely reworked structure
1918 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
1919 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
1920 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
1921 - removed all those ugly footnotes
1922 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
1923 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
1924 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
1925 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
1926 - mention "orphaned packages"
1927 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
1928 distributions' policy
1929 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
1930 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
1931 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
1932 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
1933 - added section about arch spec strings
1934 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
1935 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
1936 - added section about "menus"
1937 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
1938 the new documentation policy soon
1939 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
1940 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
1942 - added section about editors and pagers
1943 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
1944 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
1945 - added section about device files
1946 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
1947 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
1948 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
1950 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
1951 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
1952 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
1953 - Added new section about obsolete names
1954 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
1955 * Fixed package's description
1957 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
1959 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1961 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
1963 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
1965 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1967 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
1968 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
1969 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
1970 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
1972 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
1974 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1976 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
1977 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
1978 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
1980 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
1981 and upload it "byhand" too.
1983 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
1985 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
1989 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
1990 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
1991 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
1992 functionality must not have the same name.
1993 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
1994 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
1995 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
1996 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
1997 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
1998 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
1999 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2001 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2002 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2003 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2004 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2005 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2006 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2007 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2008 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2011 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2013 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2015 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2017 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2018 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2019 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2020 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2021 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2024 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2026 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2028 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2030 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2031 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2032 description of deb file format.
2033 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2034 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2036 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2038 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2039 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2041 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2043 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2045 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2046 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2047 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2048 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2049 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2050 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2051 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2052 packages in section on Procedure
2053 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2054 a package maintainer
2055 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2056 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2057 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2059 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2060 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2061 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2062 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2063 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2064 on various shlib files
2065 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2066 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2067 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2069 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2071 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2073 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2074 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2075 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2077 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2078 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2079 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2080 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2081 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2083 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2085 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2087 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2089 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2091 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2092 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2093 compatibility go in contrib.
2095 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2096 instructions in policy manual.
2097 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2100 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2102 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2104 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2105 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2106 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2107 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2109 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2110 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2113 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2115 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2117 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2118 * More detail about changelog format names.
2120 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2121 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2125 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2127 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2129 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2131 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2133 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2135 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2137 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2139 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2140 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2141 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2143 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2145 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2147 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2149 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2151 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2155 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100