1 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
4 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
5 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
6 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
7 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
8 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
9 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
10 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
11 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
12 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
13 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
14 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
15 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
16 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
17 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
18 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
20 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
22 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
23 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
24 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
26 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
27 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
28 list?" (Closes: #412634).
29 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
30 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
31 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
32 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
33 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
34 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
35 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
36 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
37 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
38 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
40 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 21:19:09 -0800
42 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
44 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
45 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
46 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
47 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
48 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
50 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
52 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
53 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
54 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
55 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
56 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
58 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
59 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
60 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
61 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
62 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
63 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
64 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
65 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
66 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
67 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
68 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
69 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
70 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
71 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
72 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
73 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
75 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
77 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
78 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
79 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
80 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
81 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
82 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
83 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
84 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
86 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
88 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
90 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
91 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
92 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
93 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
94 Polo (Closes: #372497).
95 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
96 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
98 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
99 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
100 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
101 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
102 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
103 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
104 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
105 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
106 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
107 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
109 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
110 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
111 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
112 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
113 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
114 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
116 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
118 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
120 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
121 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
122 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
123 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
125 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
126 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
128 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
130 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
132 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
133 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
134 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
135 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
136 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
137 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
138 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
139 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
140 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
141 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
143 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
144 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
145 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
146 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
147 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
148 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
149 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
150 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
151 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
152 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
153 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
156 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
158 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
160 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
161 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
162 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
163 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
164 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
165 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
166 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
167 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
168 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
169 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
170 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
171 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
172 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
173 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
174 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
175 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
176 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
177 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
178 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
179 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
180 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
181 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
182 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
183 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
184 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
185 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
186 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
187 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
189 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
190 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
191 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
192 Hess (Closes: #362247).
193 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
194 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
195 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
196 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
197 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
198 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
199 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
200 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
201 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
202 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
203 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
204 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
206 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
207 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
209 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
210 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
211 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
212 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
213 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
214 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
215 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
216 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
217 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
218 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
219 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
221 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
223 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
226 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
227 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
228 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
229 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
230 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
231 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
232 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
233 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
234 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
235 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
236 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
237 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
238 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
240 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
241 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
242 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
243 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
244 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
245 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
246 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
247 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
248 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
249 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
250 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
251 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
252 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
253 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
254 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
255 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
256 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
257 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
258 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
261 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
263 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
265 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
266 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
267 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
268 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
270 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
271 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
272 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
273 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
275 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
277 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
280 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
281 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
282 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
283 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
284 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
285 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
286 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
287 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
288 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
289 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
291 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
292 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
293 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
295 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
296 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
297 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
298 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
299 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
300 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
301 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
303 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
304 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
305 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
306 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
308 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
309 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
310 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
311 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
312 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
313 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
314 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
315 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
317 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
318 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
319 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
320 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
321 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
322 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
323 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
324 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
325 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
326 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
327 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
328 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
329 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
330 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
331 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
332 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
333 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
335 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
337 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
340 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
341 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
342 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
343 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
344 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
345 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
346 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
347 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
348 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
350 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
351 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
352 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
353 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
354 this section. closes: Bug#248618
355 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
356 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
357 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
358 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
359 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
360 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
361 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
362 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
363 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
364 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
365 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
366 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
368 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
369 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
370 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
373 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
374 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
375 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
377 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
378 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
379 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
380 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
381 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
382 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
384 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
385 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
387 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
388 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
389 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
390 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
391 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
392 Closes: #185943, #237049
394 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
396 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
399 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
402 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
403 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
404 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
405 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
406 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
407 running. closes: Bug#187250
408 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
409 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
410 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
411 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
412 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
413 user closes: Bug#176506
415 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
417 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
420 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
421 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
422 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
423 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
424 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
425 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
426 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
427 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
428 deb-building toolchain.
429 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
430 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
431 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
432 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
433 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
434 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
435 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
436 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
437 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
438 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
439 sections about changelog files.
441 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
442 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
443 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
444 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
445 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
446 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
448 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
449 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
450 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
451 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
452 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
453 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
454 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
455 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
456 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
457 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
458 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
459 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
460 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
461 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
462 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
463 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
464 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
465 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
466 for the restructuring
468 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
470 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
473 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
475 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
476 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
477 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
478 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
479 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
480 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
482 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
483 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
484 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
485 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
486 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
487 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
488 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
490 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
491 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
492 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
493 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
495 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
497 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
500 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
501 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
502 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
503 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
504 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
505 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
507 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
508 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
509 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
510 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
512 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
513 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
514 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
515 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
516 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
517 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
518 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
519 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
520 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
522 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
523 script should start it, closes: #60979
524 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
525 "should", closes: #170019
526 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
527 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
528 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
529 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
530 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
531 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
532 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
533 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
536 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
538 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
541 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
542 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
543 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
544 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
545 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
546 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
547 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
548 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
549 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
551 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
552 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
553 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
554 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
555 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
556 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
557 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
558 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
559 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
561 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
562 file, closes: Bug#65764
564 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
566 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
568 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
569 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
570 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
571 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
572 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
573 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
574 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
575 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
576 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
577 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
578 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
579 details. closes: Bug#133030
580 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
581 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
584 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
586 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
588 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
589 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
590 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
591 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
592 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
593 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
594 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
595 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
596 not. closes: Bug#139820
597 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
598 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
599 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
600 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
601 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
602 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
603 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
604 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
605 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
606 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
608 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
610 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
611 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
612 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
613 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
614 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
615 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
616 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
617 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
618 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
619 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
620 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
621 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
622 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
623 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
624 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
625 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
626 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
627 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
628 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
629 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
631 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
632 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
633 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
634 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
635 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
636 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
637 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
639 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
640 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
641 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
642 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
643 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
644 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
645 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
646 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
647 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
649 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
651 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
653 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
654 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
655 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
656 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
657 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
658 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
659 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
660 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
661 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
662 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
663 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
664 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
665 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
666 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
667 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
668 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
669 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
670 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
671 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
672 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
673 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
674 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
675 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
677 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
679 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
681 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
682 medium, high, emergency.
683 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
684 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
685 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
686 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
687 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
690 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
691 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
692 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
694 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
695 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
696 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
697 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
698 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
699 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
700 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
703 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
705 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
707 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
708 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
709 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
710 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
712 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
713 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
714 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
715 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
716 debian/rules to do this
717 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
718 patches are incorporated upstream
719 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
720 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
721 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
722 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
723 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
724 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
726 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
727 system closes: Bug#91249
728 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
729 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
730 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
731 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
732 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
733 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
734 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
735 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
736 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
737 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
738 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
739 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
740 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
742 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
744 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
746 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
747 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
748 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
749 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
751 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
752 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
753 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
755 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
758 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
760 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
762 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
763 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
764 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
765 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
766 package for the time being
767 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
768 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
769 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
770 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
771 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
772 * Rename all .text files as .txt
773 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
774 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
775 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
776 Build-Depends arch syntax
777 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
779 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
780 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
782 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
783 from policy maintenance duties.
784 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
785 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
787 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
789 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
791 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
793 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
795 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
797 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
798 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
799 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
800 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
801 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
802 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
803 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
804 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
805 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
806 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
807 minor version number for this
808 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
809 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
810 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
811 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
812 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
813 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
814 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
815 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
816 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
818 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
820 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
822 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
823 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
824 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
825 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
826 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
828 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
830 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
831 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
832 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
833 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
834 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
835 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
836 xutils closes: Bug#82966
837 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
838 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
839 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
840 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
841 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
842 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
843 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
844 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
845 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
848 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
850 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
852 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
853 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
855 * Document the Enhances relationship
856 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
857 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
858 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
859 policy. closes: Bug#53496
860 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
861 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
863 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
865 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
866 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
867 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
868 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
870 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
871 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
872 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
873 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
874 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
876 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
878 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
880 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
881 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
882 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
884 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
885 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
886 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
887 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
888 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
889 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
890 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
891 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
892 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
894 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
896 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
898 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
900 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
901 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
902 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
903 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
904 policy. closes: Bug#64437
905 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
906 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
907 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
908 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
909 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
910 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
911 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
912 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
913 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
914 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
915 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
916 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
917 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
918 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
919 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
920 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
921 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
923 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
924 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
926 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
928 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
930 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
931 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
932 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
933 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
934 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
935 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
936 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
937 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
938 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
939 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
940 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
941 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
942 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
943 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
944 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
945 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
946 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
947 alternative closes: Bug#53755
948 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
949 list closes: Bug#53756
950 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
951 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
952 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
953 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
954 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
955 policy closes: Bug#53760
956 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
957 policy closes: Bug#53761
958 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
959 that use X closes: Bug#53762
960 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
961 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
962 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
963 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
964 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
965 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
966 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
967 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
968 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
970 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
971 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
972 to install with older fileutils.
973 * Installed FHS version 2.1
974 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
975 * Added FHS details to copyright file
976 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
978 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
979 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
981 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
983 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
985 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
986 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
988 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
990 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
992 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
993 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
995 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
998 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1001 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1003 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1005 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1007 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1009 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1010 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1012 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1014 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1016 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1017 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1018 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1019 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1020 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1021 directoried (closes: #41547)
1022 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1023 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1024 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1025 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1026 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1027 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1028 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1029 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1030 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1031 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1032 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1034 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1035 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1036 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1037 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1038 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1039 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1040 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1042 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1043 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1044 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1045 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1047 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1049 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1051 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1052 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1054 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1056 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1059 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1061 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1063 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1066 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1068 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1069 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1070 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1071 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1072 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1073 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1074 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1075 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1076 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1077 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1078 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1079 this closes: Bug#38612
1080 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1081 before. closes: Bug#40864
1083 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1085 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1087 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1088 officially uploaded.
1089 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1091 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1092 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1093 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1095 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1096 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1097 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1098 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1099 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1100 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1102 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1103 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1104 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1106 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1108 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1109 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1110 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1111 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1112 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1114 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1116 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1119 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1120 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1121 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1122 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1123 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1124 there). closes: Bug#34233
1125 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1126 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1127 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1128 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1129 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1131 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1133 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1135 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1136 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1137 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1138 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1141 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1142 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1143 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1144 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1145 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1148 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1149 number. closes: BUG#25911
1151 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1152 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1153 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1154 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1155 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1156 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1158 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1159 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1160 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1163 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1164 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1165 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1167 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1168 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1169 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1170 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1172 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1173 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1174 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1176 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1178 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1179 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1180 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1181 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1182 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1183 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1184 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1185 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1188 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1190 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1191 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1194 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1196 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1200 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1202 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1204 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1205 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1206 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1207 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1208 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1209 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1210 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1211 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1213 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1214 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1216 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1218 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1220 * non-maintainer release
1221 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1222 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1224 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1225 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1226 * no content changes
1227 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1229 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1231 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1235 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1237 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1239 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1241 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1242 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1243 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1245 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1246 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1248 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1249 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1250 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1251 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1253 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1254 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1255 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1256 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1257 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1258 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1259 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1261 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1262 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1263 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1266 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1267 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1268 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1270 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1271 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1272 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1274 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1275 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1277 * New version numbering scheme:
1279 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1280 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1281 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1284 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1285 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1286 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1287 differ between the manuals.
1289 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1290 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1291 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1292 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1294 * Packaging changes:
1296 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1297 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1299 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1301 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1303 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1307 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1308 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1309 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1311 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1312 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1315 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1316 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1317 file extension as the referenced file
1319 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1320 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1322 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1323 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1324 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1325 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1328 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1329 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1330 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1332 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1333 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1334 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1335 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1338 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1339 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
1342 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
1343 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
1344 reasonable default configuration
1346 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
1347 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
1348 by all news servers and clients
1350 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
1351 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
1352 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
1353 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
1354 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
1356 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1357 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
1360 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
1362 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1363 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
1365 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
1368 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
1369 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
1371 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
1372 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
1374 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1376 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
1378 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1381 - X library package is now called xlib6g
1382 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1383 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
1385 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
1387 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
1388 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
1389 * Don't use debstd anymore
1391 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
1393 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1396 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
1397 contrib/non-free policy
1398 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
1399 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
1400 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
1401 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
1402 - new section about `Daemons'
1403 - updated section about `Configuration files'
1404 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
1405 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
1406 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1407 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
1408 * Paper about libc6 migration:
1409 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
1410 * SGML source code included in package
1411 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
1413 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
1415 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1418 - completely reworked structure
1419 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
1420 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
1421 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
1422 - removed all those ugly footnotes
1423 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
1424 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
1425 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
1426 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
1427 - mention "orphaned packages"
1428 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
1429 distributions' policy
1430 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
1431 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
1432 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
1433 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
1434 - added section about arch spec strings
1435 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
1436 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
1437 - added section about "menus"
1438 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
1439 the new documentation policy soon
1440 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
1441 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
1443 - added section about editors and pagers
1444 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
1445 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
1446 - added section about device files
1447 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
1448 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
1449 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
1451 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
1452 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
1453 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
1454 - Added new section about obsolete names
1455 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
1456 * Fixed package's description
1458 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
1460 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1462 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
1464 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
1466 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1468 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
1469 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
1470 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
1471 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
1473 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
1475 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1477 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
1478 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
1479 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
1481 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
1482 and upload it "byhand" too.
1484 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
1486 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
1490 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
1491 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
1492 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
1493 functionality must not have the same name.
1494 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
1495 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
1496 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
1497 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
1498 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
1499 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
1500 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
1502 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
1503 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
1504 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
1505 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
1506 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
1507 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
1508 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
1509 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
1512 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
1514 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
1516 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
1518 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
1519 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
1520 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
1521 a package into. (Guy Maor)
1522 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
1525 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
1527 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
1529 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
1531 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
1532 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
1533 description of deb file format.
1534 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
1535 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
1537 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
1539 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
1540 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
1542 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
1544 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
1546 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
1547 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
1548 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
1549 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
1550 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
1551 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
1552 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
1553 packages in section on Procedure
1554 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
1555 a package maintainer
1556 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
1557 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
1558 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
1560 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
1561 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
1562 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
1563 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
1564 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
1565 on various shlib files
1566 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
1567 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
1568 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
1570 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
1572 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
1574 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
1575 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
1576 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
1578 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
1579 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
1580 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
1581 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
1582 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
1584 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
1586 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
1588 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
1590 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
1592 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
1593 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
1594 compatibility go in contrib.
1596 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
1597 instructions in policy manual.
1598 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
1601 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
1603 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
1605 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
1606 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
1607 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
1608 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
1610 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
1611 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
1614 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
1616 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
1618 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
1619 * More detail about changelog format names.
1621 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
1622 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
1626 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
1628 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
1630 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
1632 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
1634 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
1636 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
1638 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
1640 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
1641 * More verbosity about netiquette.
1642 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
1644 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
1646 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
1648 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
1650 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
1652 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
1656 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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