1 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
4 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
5 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
7 Closes: #459868, #581011
8 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
9 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
10 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
11 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
13 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
14 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
15 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
16 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
18 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
19 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
20 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
21 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
23 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
24 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
25 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
26 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
28 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
29 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
30 machine. (Closes: #591857)
31 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
32 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
33 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
34 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
35 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
36 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
37 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
38 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
39 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
40 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
42 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
43 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
44 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
45 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
46 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
47 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
48 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
49 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
50 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
51 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
52 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
53 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
54 than the version in oldstable.
55 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
56 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
57 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
58 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
59 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
60 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
62 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:47:47 -0700
64 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
66 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
67 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
68 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
69 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
70 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
72 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
73 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
74 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
75 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
77 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
78 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
79 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
80 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
82 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
83 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
84 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
85 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
86 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
87 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
88 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
89 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
90 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
92 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
93 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
94 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
95 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
97 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
98 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
99 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
100 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
102 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
103 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
104 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
105 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
107 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
108 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
109 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
110 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
112 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
113 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
114 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
115 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
116 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
118 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
119 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
120 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
121 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
122 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
124 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
125 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
126 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
127 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
129 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
130 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
131 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
132 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
134 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
135 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
136 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
137 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
139 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
140 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
141 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
142 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
144 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
145 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
146 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
147 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
149 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
150 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
151 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
152 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
154 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
156 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
157 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
158 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
159 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
160 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
161 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
162 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
163 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
164 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
166 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
167 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
168 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
169 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
170 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
171 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
173 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
175 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
178 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
181 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
184 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
185 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
186 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
187 and distribution license' (three times).
188 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
189 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
190 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
191 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
192 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
194 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
196 Proposed by Santiago Vila
197 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
198 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
199 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
200 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
204 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
205 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
206 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
207 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
209 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
210 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
211 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
212 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
213 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
214 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
216 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
217 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
218 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
219 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
221 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
222 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
223 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
224 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
225 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
227 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
228 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
229 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
230 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
231 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
233 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
234 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
235 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
236 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
237 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
239 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
240 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
241 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
242 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
244 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
245 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
246 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
247 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
248 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
250 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
251 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
252 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
253 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
255 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
256 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
257 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
258 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
260 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
261 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
262 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
263 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
264 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
266 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
267 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
268 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
269 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
271 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
272 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
273 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
274 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
275 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
277 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
278 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
279 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
280 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
282 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
283 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
284 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
285 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
286 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
287 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
288 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
289 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
290 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
291 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
292 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
293 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
294 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
295 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
296 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
297 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
298 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
299 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
300 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
301 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
302 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
303 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
304 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
305 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
306 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
307 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
308 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
309 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
310 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
311 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
312 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
313 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
315 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
317 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
319 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
322 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
323 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
325 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
326 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
330 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
333 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
334 Wording: Steve Langasek.
335 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
336 Seconded: Julien Cristau
337 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
340 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
341 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
342 Seconded: Russ Allbery
343 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
346 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
347 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
348 Seconded: Russ Allbery
350 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
351 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
352 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
353 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
354 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
355 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
356 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
357 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
358 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
360 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
361 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
362 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
363 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
364 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
365 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
366 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
367 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
368 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
369 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
370 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
371 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
372 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
373 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
374 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
375 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
377 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
378 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
379 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
380 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
381 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
383 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
386 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
387 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
388 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
389 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
390 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
391 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
394 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
396 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
398 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
399 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
400 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
401 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
403 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
404 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
405 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
406 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
408 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
409 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
410 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
411 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
413 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
414 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
415 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
416 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
417 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
418 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
420 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
421 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
422 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
423 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
424 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
426 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
427 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
428 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
429 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
431 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
432 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
433 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
434 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
436 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
437 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
438 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
439 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
441 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
442 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
443 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
444 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
446 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
447 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
448 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
449 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
451 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
452 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
453 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
454 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
455 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
456 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
457 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
458 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
459 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
460 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
461 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
462 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
463 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
464 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
465 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
467 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
468 Source field descriptions.
469 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
470 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
471 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
472 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
473 description says otherwise.
475 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
477 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
480 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
481 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
482 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
483 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
484 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
485 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
487 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
488 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
489 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
490 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
492 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
493 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
494 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
495 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
497 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
498 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
499 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
500 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
502 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
503 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
504 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
505 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
509 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
510 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
511 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
512 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
513 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
515 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
516 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
517 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
518 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
520 * Add myself to Uploaders.
523 * Add myself to Uploaders.
524 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
526 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
527 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
528 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
530 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
532 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
534 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
535 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
536 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
537 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
539 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
540 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
541 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
542 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
544 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
545 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
546 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
547 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
549 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
550 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
551 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
552 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
554 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
555 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
556 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
557 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
559 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
560 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
561 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
562 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
564 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
565 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
566 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
567 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
569 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
570 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
571 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
572 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
574 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
575 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
576 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
577 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
579 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
580 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
581 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
582 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
584 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
585 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
586 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
587 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
588 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
590 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
591 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
592 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
593 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
594 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
595 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
596 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
597 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
598 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
599 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
600 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
601 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
602 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
603 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
604 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
605 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
606 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
607 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
608 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
609 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
610 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
611 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
612 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
613 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
614 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
615 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
616 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
617 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
618 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
619 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
621 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
622 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
623 links was completed long ago.
624 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
626 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
628 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
630 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
631 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
633 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
635 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
637 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
638 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
639 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
640 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
641 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
642 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
643 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
644 Millan (Closes: #209008).
645 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
646 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
648 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
650 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
652 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
653 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
654 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
655 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
656 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
657 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
658 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
660 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
661 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
662 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
663 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
665 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
666 Küster (Closes: #403391).
667 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
668 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
669 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
670 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
671 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
672 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
673 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
674 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
675 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
676 Closes: #186700, #458910
677 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
678 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
679 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
681 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
682 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
683 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
684 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
685 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
686 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
687 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
688 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
690 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
691 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
693 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
694 * Add an md5sums control file.
695 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
696 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
697 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
698 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
699 currently part of policy.
700 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
701 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
702 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
705 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
707 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
709 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
710 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
711 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
712 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
713 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
714 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
715 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
716 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
717 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
718 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
719 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
720 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
721 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
722 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
723 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
724 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
726 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
728 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
729 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
730 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
732 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
733 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
734 list?" (Closes: #412634).
735 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
736 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
737 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
738 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
739 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
740 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
741 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
742 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
743 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
744 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
745 debconf specification.
746 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
747 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
749 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
751 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
753 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
754 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
755 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
756 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
757 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
759 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
761 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
762 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
763 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
764 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
765 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
767 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
768 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
769 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
770 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
771 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
772 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
773 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
774 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
775 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
776 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
777 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
778 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
779 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
780 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
781 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
782 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
784 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
786 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
787 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
788 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
789 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
790 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
791 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
792 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
793 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
795 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
797 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
799 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
800 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
801 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
802 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
803 Polo (Closes: #372497).
804 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
805 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
807 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
808 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
809 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
810 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
811 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
812 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
813 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
814 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
815 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
816 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
818 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
819 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
820 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
821 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
822 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
823 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
825 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
827 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
829 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
830 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
831 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
832 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
834 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
835 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
837 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
839 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
841 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
842 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
843 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
844 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
845 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
846 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
847 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
848 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
849 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
850 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
852 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
853 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
854 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
855 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
856 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
857 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
858 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
859 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
860 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
861 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
862 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
865 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
867 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
869 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
870 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
871 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
872 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
873 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
874 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
875 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
876 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
877 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
878 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
879 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
880 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
881 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
882 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
883 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
884 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
885 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
886 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
887 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
888 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
889 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
890 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
891 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
892 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
893 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
894 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
895 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
896 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
898 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
899 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
900 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
901 Hess (Closes: #362247).
902 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
903 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
904 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
905 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
906 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
907 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
908 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
909 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
910 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
911 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
912 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
913 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
915 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
916 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
918 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
919 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
920 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
921 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
922 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
923 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
924 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
925 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
926 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
927 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
928 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
930 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
932 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
935 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
936 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
937 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
938 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
939 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
940 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
941 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
942 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
943 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
944 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
945 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
946 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
947 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
949 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
950 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
951 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
952 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
953 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
954 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
955 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
956 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
957 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
958 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
959 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
960 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
961 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
962 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
963 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
964 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
965 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
966 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
967 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
970 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
972 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
974 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
975 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
976 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
977 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
979 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
980 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
981 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
982 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
984 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
986 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
989 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
990 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
991 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
992 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
993 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
994 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
995 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
996 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
997 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
998 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1000 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1001 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1002 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1004 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1005 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1006 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1007 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1008 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1009 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1010 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1012 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1013 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1014 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1015 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1017 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1018 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1019 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1020 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1021 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1022 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1023 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1024 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1026 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1027 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1028 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1029 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1030 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1031 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1032 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1033 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1034 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1035 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1036 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1037 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1038 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1039 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1040 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1041 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1042 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1044 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1046 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1050 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1051 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1052 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1053 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1054 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1055 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1056 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1057 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1059 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1060 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1061 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1062 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1063 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1064 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1065 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1066 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1067 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1068 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1069 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1070 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1071 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1072 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1073 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1074 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1075 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1077 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1078 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1079 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1082 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1083 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1084 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1086 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1087 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1088 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1089 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1090 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1091 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1093 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1094 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1096 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1097 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1098 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1099 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1100 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1101 Closes: #185943, #237049
1103 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1105 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1111 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1112 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1113 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1114 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1115 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1116 running. closes: Bug#187250
1117 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1118 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1119 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1120 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1121 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1122 user closes: Bug#176506
1124 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1126 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1130 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1131 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1132 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1133 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1134 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1135 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1136 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1137 deb-building toolchain.
1138 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1139 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1140 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1141 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1142 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1143 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1144 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1145 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1146 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1147 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1148 sections about changelog files.
1150 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1151 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1152 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1153 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1154 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1155 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1157 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1158 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1159 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1160 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1161 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1162 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1163 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1164 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1165 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1166 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1167 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1168 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1169 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1170 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1171 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1172 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1173 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1174 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1175 for the restructuring
1177 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1179 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1182 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1184 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1185 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1186 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1187 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1188 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1189 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1191 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1192 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1193 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1194 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1195 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1196 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1197 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1199 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1200 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1201 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1202 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1204 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1206 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1210 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1211 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1212 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1213 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1214 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1216 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1217 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1218 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1219 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1221 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1222 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1223 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1224 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1225 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1226 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1227 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1228 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1229 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1230 offtopic stuff, too.
1231 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1232 script should start it, closes: #60979
1233 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1234 "should", closes: #170019
1235 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1236 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1237 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1238 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1239 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1240 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1241 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1242 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1245 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1247 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1251 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1252 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1253 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1254 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1255 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1256 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1257 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1258 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1260 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1261 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1262 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1263 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1264 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1265 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1266 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1267 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1268 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1270 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1271 file, closes: Bug#65764
1273 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1275 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1278 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1279 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1280 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1281 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1282 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1283 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1284 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1285 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1286 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1287 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1288 details. closes: Bug#133030
1289 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1290 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1291 parts of Bug#161455.
1293 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1295 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1298 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1299 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1300 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1301 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1302 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1303 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1304 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1305 not. closes: Bug#139820
1306 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1307 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1308 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1309 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1310 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1311 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1312 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1313 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1314 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1315 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1317 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1319 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1320 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1321 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1322 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1323 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1324 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1325 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1326 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1327 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1328 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1329 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1330 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1331 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1332 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1333 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1334 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1335 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1336 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1337 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1338 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1340 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1341 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1342 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1343 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1344 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1345 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1346 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1348 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1349 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1350 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1351 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1352 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1353 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1354 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1355 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1356 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1358 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1360 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1363 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1364 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1365 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1366 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1367 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1368 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1369 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1370 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1371 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1372 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1373 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1374 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1375 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1376 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1377 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1378 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1379 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1380 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1381 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1382 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1383 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1384 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1386 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1388 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1390 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1391 medium, high, emergency.
1392 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1393 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1394 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1395 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1396 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1399 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1400 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1401 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1403 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1404 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1405 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1406 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1407 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1408 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1409 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1412 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1414 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1417 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1418 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1419 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1421 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1422 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1423 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1424 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1425 debian/rules to do this
1426 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1427 patches are incorporated upstream
1428 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1429 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1430 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1431 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1432 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1433 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1435 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1436 system closes: Bug#91249
1437 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1438 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1439 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1440 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1441 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1442 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1443 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1444 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1445 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1446 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1447 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1448 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1449 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1451 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1453 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1456 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1457 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1458 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1460 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1461 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1462 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1464 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1467 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1469 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1471 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1472 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1473 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1474 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1475 package for the time being
1476 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1477 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1478 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1479 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1480 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1481 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1482 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1483 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1484 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1485 Build-Depends arch syntax
1486 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1488 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1489 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1491 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1492 from policy maintenance duties.
1493 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1494 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1496 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1498 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1500 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1502 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1504 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1507 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1508 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1509 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1510 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1511 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1512 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1513 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1514 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1515 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1516 minor version number for this
1517 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1518 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1519 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1520 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1521 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1522 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1523 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1524 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1525 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1527 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1529 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1531 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1532 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1533 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1534 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1535 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1537 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1539 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1540 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1541 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1542 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1543 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1544 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1545 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1546 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1547 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1548 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1549 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1550 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1551 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1552 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1553 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1554 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1557 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1559 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1562 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1564 * Document the Enhances relationship
1565 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1566 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1567 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1568 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1569 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1570 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1572 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1574 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1575 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1576 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1577 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1579 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1580 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1581 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1582 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1583 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1585 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1587 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1590 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1591 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1593 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1594 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1595 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1596 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1597 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1598 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1599 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1600 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1601 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1603 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1605 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1607 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1609 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1610 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1611 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1612 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1613 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1614 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1615 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1616 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1617 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1618 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1619 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1620 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1621 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1622 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1623 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1624 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1625 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1626 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1627 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1628 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1629 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1630 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1632 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1633 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1635 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1637 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1640 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1641 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1642 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1643 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1644 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1645 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1646 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1647 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1648 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1649 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1650 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1651 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1652 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1653 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1654 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1655 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1656 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1657 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1658 list closes: Bug#53756
1659 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1660 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1661 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1662 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1663 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1664 policy closes: Bug#53760
1665 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1666 policy closes: Bug#53761
1667 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1668 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1669 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1670 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1671 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1672 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1673 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1674 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1675 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1676 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1677 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1679 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1680 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1681 to install with older fileutils.
1682 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1683 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1684 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1685 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1687 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1688 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1690 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1692 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1695 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1697 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1699 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1701 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1702 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1704 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1707 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1710 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1712 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1714 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1716 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1719 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1721 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1723 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1726 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1727 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1728 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1729 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1730 directoried (closes: #41547)
1731 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1732 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1733 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1734 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1735 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1736 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1737 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1738 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1739 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1740 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1741 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1743 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1744 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1745 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1746 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1747 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1748 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1749 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1751 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1752 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1753 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1754 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1756 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1758 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1760 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1761 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1763 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1765 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1767 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1768 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1770 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1772 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1775 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1777 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1778 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1779 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1780 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1781 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1782 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1783 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1784 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1785 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1786 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1787 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1788 this closes: Bug#38612
1789 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1790 before. closes: Bug#40864
1792 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1794 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1797 officially uploaded.
1798 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1800 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1801 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1802 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1804 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1805 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1806 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1807 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1808 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1809 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1811 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1812 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1813 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1815 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1817 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1818 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1819 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1820 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1821 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1823 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1825 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1828 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1829 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1830 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1831 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1832 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1833 there). closes: Bug#34233
1834 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1835 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1836 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1837 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1838 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1840 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1842 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1845 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1846 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1847 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1850 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1851 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1852 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1853 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1854 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1857 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1858 number. closes: BUG#25911
1860 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1861 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1862 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1863 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1864 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1865 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1867 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1868 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1869 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1872 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1873 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1874 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1876 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1877 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1878 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1879 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1881 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1882 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1883 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1885 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1887 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1888 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1889 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1890 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1891 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1892 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1893 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1894 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1897 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1899 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1900 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1903 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1905 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1909 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1911 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1913 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1914 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1915 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1916 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1917 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1918 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1919 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1920 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1922 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1923 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1925 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1927 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1929 * non-maintainer release
1930 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1931 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1933 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1934 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1935 * no content changes
1936 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1938 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1940 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1944 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1946 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1948 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1950 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1951 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1952 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1954 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1955 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1957 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1958 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1959 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1960 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1962 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1963 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1964 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1965 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1966 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1967 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1968 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1970 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1971 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1972 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1975 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1976 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1977 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1979 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1980 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1981 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1983 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1984 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1986 * New version numbering scheme:
1988 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1989 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1990 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1993 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1994 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1995 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1996 differ between the manuals.
1998 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1999 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2000 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2001 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2003 * Packaging changes:
2005 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2006 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2008 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2010 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2012 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2014 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2016 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2017 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2018 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2020 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2021 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2024 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2025 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2026 file extension as the referenced file
2028 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2029 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2031 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2032 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2033 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2034 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2037 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2038 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2039 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2041 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2042 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2043 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2044 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2047 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2048 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2051 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2052 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2053 reasonable default configuration
2055 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2056 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2057 by all news servers and clients
2059 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2060 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2061 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2062 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2063 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2065 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2066 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2069 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2071 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2072 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2074 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2077 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2078 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2080 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2081 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2083 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2085 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2087 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2090 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2091 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2092 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2094 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2096 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2097 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2098 * Don't use debstd anymore
2100 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2102 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2105 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2106 contrib/non-free policy
2107 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2108 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2109 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2110 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2111 - new section about `Daemons'
2112 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2113 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2114 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2115 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2116 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2117 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2118 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2119 * SGML source code included in package
2120 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2122 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2124 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2127 - completely reworked structure
2128 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2129 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2130 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2131 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2132 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2133 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2134 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2135 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2136 - mention "orphaned packages"
2137 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2138 distributions' policy
2139 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2140 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2141 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2142 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2143 - added section about arch spec strings
2144 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2145 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2146 - added section about "menus"
2147 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2148 the new documentation policy soon
2149 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2150 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2152 - added section about editors and pagers
2153 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2154 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2155 - added section about device files
2156 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2157 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2158 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2160 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2161 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2162 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2163 - Added new section about obsolete names
2164 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2165 * Fixed package's description
2167 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2169 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2171 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2173 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2175 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2177 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2178 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2179 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2180 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2182 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2184 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2186 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2187 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2188 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2190 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2191 and upload it "byhand" too.
2193 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2195 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2198 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2199 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2200 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2201 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2202 functionality must not have the same name.
2203 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2204 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2205 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2206 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2207 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2208 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2209 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2211 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2212 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2213 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2214 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2215 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2216 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2217 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2218 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2221 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2223 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2225 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2227 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2228 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2229 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2230 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2231 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2234 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2236 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2238 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2240 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2241 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2242 description of deb file format.
2243 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2244 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2246 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2248 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2249 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2251 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2253 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2255 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2256 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2257 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2258 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2259 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2260 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2261 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2262 packages in section on Procedure
2263 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2264 a package maintainer
2265 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2266 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2267 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2269 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2270 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2271 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2272 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2273 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2274 on various shlib files
2275 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2276 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2277 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2279 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2281 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2283 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2284 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2285 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2287 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2288 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2289 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2290 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2291 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2293 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2295 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2297 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2299 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2301 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2302 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2303 compatibility go in contrib.
2305 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2306 instructions in policy manual.
2307 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2310 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2312 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2314 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2315 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2316 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2317 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2319 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2320 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2323 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2325 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2327 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2328 * More detail about changelog format names.
2330 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2331 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2335 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2337 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2339 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2341 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2343 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2345 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2347 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2349 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2350 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2351 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2353 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2355 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2357 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2359 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2361 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2365 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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