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8 <title>Policy checklist for upgrading your packages</title>
12 <h1>Policy checklist for upgrading your packages</h1>
14 <h2>About the checklist</h2>
17 The checklist below has been created to simplify the upgrading process
18 of old packages. Note that this list is not `official'; it simply
19 gives an indication of what has changed and whether you are likely to
20 need to make changes to your package in light of this. If you have
21 doubts about a certain topic, if you need more details, or if you
22 think some other package does not comply with policy, please refer to
23 the Policy Manual itself. All of the changes from version 3.0.0
24 onwards indicate which section of the Policy Manual discusses the
25 issue: [3.4] means section 3.4. The section numbering changed when
26 the packaging manual was incorporated into policy; the section numbers
27 used below refer to the current version.
31 Here is how the check list works: Check which policy version your
32 package complies with currently (indicated in the "Standards-Version"
33 field of the source package). Then move upwards until the top and
34 check which of the items on the list might concern your package. Note
35 which sections of policy discuss this, and then check out the Policy
36 Manual for details. If you are upgrading from Policy version < 2.5.0,
37 it may be easier to check through the whole of policy instead of
38 picking your way through this list.
41 <h2>The checklist</h2>
46 * Add DEB_*_ARCH_CPU and DEB_*_ARCH_OS variables and recommend them
47 over GNU-style variables for that information. [4.9]
51 * The list of archive sections has been significantly expanded. See
52 http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/03/msg00010.html
53 for the list of new sections and rules for how to categorize
55 * All packages must use debconf or equivalent for user prompting,
56 though essential packages or their dependencies may also fall
57 back on other methods. [3.9.1]
58 * The requirements for source package names are now explicitly
60 * Legacy XFree86 servers no longer get a special exception from the
61 FHS permitting /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. [9.1]
62 * Removed obsolete dependency requirements for packages that use
64 * Speedo fonts are now deprecated. The X backend was disabled
65 starting in lenny. [11.8.5]
66 * The GNU Free Documentation License version 1.3 is included in
67 common-licenses and should be referenced from there. [12.5]
71 * Care should be taken when adding functionality to essential and
72 such additions create an obligation to support that functionality
73 in essential forever unless significant work is done. [3.8]
74 * Changelog files must be encoded in UTF-8. [4.4]
75 * Tighten some format requirements for changelog files from a should
77 * Remove alternative changelog formats. Debian only supports one
78 changelog format for the Debian Archive. [4.4.1]
79 * New nocheck option for DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS indicating any build-time
80 test suite provided by the package should not be run. [4.9.1]
81 * All control files must be encoded in UTF-8. [5.1]
82 * debian/control allows comment lines starting with # with no
83 preceding whitespace. [5.2]
84 * Init scripts ending in .sh are not handled specially. They are not
85 sourced and are not guaranteed to be run by /bin/sh regardless of
86 the #! line. This brings Policy in line with the long-standing
87 behavior of the init system in Debian. [9.3]
88 * The start action of an init script must exit successfully and not
89 start the daemon again if it's already running. [9.3.2]
90 * /var/run and /var/lock may be mounted as temporary filesystems, and
91 init scripts must therefore create any necessary subdirectories
93 * /bin/sh scripts may assume that local can take multiple variable
94 arguments and supports assignment. [10.4]
95 * User mailboxes may be mode 600 and owned by the user rather than
96 mode 660, owned by user, and group mail. [11.6]
100 * The base section has been removed. contrib and non-free have been
101 removed from the section list; they are only categories. The base
102 system is now defined by priority. [2.4, 3.7]
103 * If dpkg-source -x doesn't provide the source that will be compiled,
104 a debian/rules patch target is recommended and should do whatever
105 else is necessary. [4.9]
106 * Standardized the format of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Specified permitted
107 characters for tags, required that tags be whitespace-separated,
108 allowed packages to assume non-conflicting tags, and required
109 unknown flags be ignored. [4.9.1, 10.1]
110 * Added parallel=n to the standardized DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS tags,
111 indicating that a package should be built using up to n parallel
112 processes if the package supports it [4.9.1]
113 * Debian packages should not use convenience copies of code from other
114 packages unless the included package is explicitly intended to be
115 used that way. [4.13]
116 * If dpkg-source -x doesn't produce source ready for editing and
117 building with dpkg-buildpackage, packages should include a
118 debian/README.source file explaining how to generate the patched
119 source, add a new modification, and remove an existing
120 modification. This file may also be used to document packaging a
121 new upstream release and any other complexity of the Debian build
123 * The Uploaders field in debian/control may be wrapped. [5.6.3]
124 * An empty Debian revision is equivalent to a Debian revision of 0 in
125 a version number. [5.6.12]
126 * New Homepage field for upstream web sites. [5.6.23]
127 * The Breaks field declares that this package breaks another and
128 prevents installation of the breaking package unless the package
129 named in Breaks is deconfigured first. This field should not be
130 used until the dpkg in Debian stable supports it. [6.5, 6.6, 7]
131 * Clarify which files should go into a shared library package, into a
132 separate package, or into the -dev package. Suggest -tools instead
133 of -runtime for runtime support programs, since that naming is more
134 common in Debian. [8.1, 8.2]
135 * Files in /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly} must be
136 configuration files (upgraded from should). Mention the hourly
138 * Packages providing /etc/X11/Xresources files need not conflict with
139 xbase (<< 3.3.2.3a-2), which is long-obsolete. [11.8.6]
140 * Manual pages in locale-specific directories should use either the
141 legacy encoding for that directory or UTF-8. Country names should
142 not be included in locale-specific manual page directories unless
143 indicating a significant difference in the language. All
144 characters in the manual page source should be representable in the
145 legacy encoding for a locale even if the man page is encoded in
147 * The Apache 2.0 license is now in common-licenses and should be
148 referenced rather than quoted in debian/copyright. [12.5]
149 * Packages in contrib and non-free should state in the copyright file
150 that the package is not part of Debian GNU/Linux and briefly
152 * Underscore (_) is allowed in debconf template names. [debconf]
156 * Package version numbers may contain tildes, which sort before
157 anything, even the end of a part. [5.6.12]
158 * Scripts may assume that /bin/sh supports local (at a basic level)
159 and that its test builtin (if any) supports -a and -o binary
160 logical operators. [10.4]
161 * The substitution variable ${binary:Version} should be used in place
162 of ${Source-Version} for dependencies between packages of the same
164 * Substantial reorganization and renaming of sections in the Debian
165 menu structure. Packages with menu entries should be reviewed to
166 see if the menu section has been renamed or if one of the new
167 sections would be more appropriate. [menu policy]
168 * The Source field in a .changes file may contain a version number
169 in parentheses. [5.6.1]
170 * The acceptable values for the Urgency field are low, medium, high,
171 critical, or emergency. [5.6.17]
172 * The shlibs file now allows an optional type field, indicating the
173 type of package for which the line is valid. The only currently
174 supported type is udeb, used with packages for the Debian
176 * Packages following the Debian Configuration management
177 specification must allow for translation of their messages by using
178 a gettext-based system such as po-debconf. [3.9.1]
179 * GFDL 1.2, GPL 3, and LGPL 3 are now in common-licenses and should
180 be referenced rather than quoted in debian/copyright. [12.5]
184 * Maintainer scripts must not be world writeable (up from a
185 should to a must) [6.1]
189 * Revert the cgi-lib change. [11.5]
193 * It is now possible to create shared libraries without
194 relocatable code (using -fPIC) in certain exceptional cases,
195 provided some procedures are followed, and for creating static
196 libraries with relocatable code (again, using -fPIC).
197 Discussion on debian-devel@lists.debian.org, getting a rough
198 consensus, and documenting it in README.Debian constitute most
199 of the process. [10.2]
200 * Packages should install any relevant files into the directories
201 /usr/include/X11/and /usr/lib/X11/, but if they do so, they
202 must pre-depend on x11-common (>= 1:7.0.0) [11.8.7]
206 * Packages shipping web server CGI files are expected to install
207 them in /usr/lib/cgi-lib/ directories. This location change
208 perhaps should be documented in NEWS [11.5]
209 * Web server packages should include a standard scriptAlias of
210 cgi-lib to /usr/lib/cgi-lib. [11.5]
211 * The version of FHS mandated by policy has been upped to
212 2.3. There should be no changes required for most packages,
213 though new top level directories /media, /srv, etc may be of
215 * All fields, apart from the Uploaders field, in the control file
216 are supposed to be a single logical line, which may be spread
217 over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space is
218 elided). However, any parser for the control file must allow
219 the Uploaders field to be spread over multiple physical lines
220 as well, to prepare for future changes. [ 5.1, 5.6.3 ]
221 * When scripts are installed into a directory in the system
222 PATH, the script name should not include an extension that
223 denotes the scripting language currently used to implement it.
225 * packages that invoke initscripts now must use invoke-rc.d to do
226 so since it also pays attention to run levels and other local
227 constraints. [ 9.3.3.2 ]
228 * We no longer use /usr/X11R6, since we have migrated away to
229 using Xorg paths. This means, for one thing, fonts live in
230 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ now, and /usr/X11R6 is gone.
231 [ 11.8.5.2, 11.8.7, etc]
235 * Recommend doc-base, and not menu, for registering package documentation.
236 * Run time support programs should live in subdirectories of
237 /usr/lib/ or /usr/share, and preferably the shared lib is named
238 the same as the package name (to avoid name collisions). [8.1]
239 * It is recommended that HTTP servers provide an alias /images to
240 allow packages to share image files with the web server [11.5]
244 + Prompting the user should be done using debconf. Non debconf
245 user prompts are now deprecated. [3.10.1]
249 - Restructuring causing shifts in section numbers and bumping of
250 the minor version number:
251 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
252 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
253 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
254 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
255 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
256 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
257 optional based on the current practice and the behavior of the
258 deb-building tool-chain.
259 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
260 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
261 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
262 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
263 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
264 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
265 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
266 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
267 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
268 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
269 sections about changelog files.
270 - Added Games/Simulation and Apps/Education to menu sub-policy
272 - Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. [C.2.2]
273 - shared libraries must be linked against all libraries that they
274 use symbols from in the same way that binaries are. [10.2]
275 - build-depends-indep need not be satisfied during clean
280 - packages providing the x-terminal-emulator virtual package
281 ought to ensure that they interpret the command line exactly
282 like xterm does. [11.8.3]
283 - Window managers compliant with the Window Manager Specification
284 Project may add 40 points for ranking in the alternatives [11.8.4]
288 - The section describing the Description: package field once again has
289 full details of the long description format. [3.4.2]
290 - Clarified that if a package has non-build-essential
291 build-dependencies, it should have them listed in the Build-Depends
292 and related fields (i.e. it's not merely optional). [4.2]
293 - When asked to restart a service that isn't already running,
294 the init script should start the service. [9.3.2]
295 - If the purpose of a package is to provide examples, then the
296 example files can be installed into <tt>/usr/share/doc/package</tt>
297 (rather than <tt>/usr/share/doc/package/examples</tt>). [12.6]
301 - It is no longer necessary to keep a log of changes to the upstream
302 sources in the copyright file. Instead, all such changes should be
303 documented in the changelog file. [12.7]
304 - <tt>Build-Depends</tt>, <tt>Build-Conflicts</tt>,
305 <tt>Build-Depends-Indep</tt>, and
306 <tt>Build-Conflicts-Indep</tt> must also be satisfied when the
307 clean target is called. [7.6]
308 - A new Apps/Science menu section is available [menu policy]
309 - debconf specification cleared up, various changes. [debconf
311 - It is no longer recommended to create symlinks from nonexistent
312 manual pages to undocumented(7). Missing manual pages for programs
313 are still a bug. [12.1]
317 - Packages no longer have to ask permission to call MAKEDEV in
318 postinst, merely notifying the user ought to be enough. [10.6]
319 - cryptographic software may now be included in the main
321 - task packages are no longer permitted; tasks are now created by a
322 special Tasks: field in the control file. [3.9]
323 - window managers that support netwm can now add 20 points when
324 they add themselves as an alternative for
325 /usr/bin/x-window-manager [11.8.4]
326 - The default compilation options have now changed, one should
327 provide debugging symbols in all cases, and optionally step
328 back optimization to -O0, depending on the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS
329 environment variable. [10.1]
330 - Added mention of build-arch, build-indep, etc, in describing
331 the relationships with `Build-Depends', `Build-Conflicts',
332 `Build-Depends-Indep', and `Build-Conflicts-Indep'. May need to
333 review the new rules. [7.6, 4.8]
334 - Changed rules on how, and when, to invoke ldconfig in maintainer
335 scripts. Long rationale. [8]
336 - [Added the last note in 3.5.6 upgrading checklist item regarding
337 build rules, please see below]
341 - Emacs and TeX are no longer mandated by policy to be priority
342 standard packages [2.5]
343 - Programs that access docs need to do so via /usr/share/doc, and
344 not via /usr/doc/ as was the policy previously [11.5]
345 - Putting documentation in /usr/doc versus /usr/share/doc is now
346 a ``serious'' policy violation. [12.3]
347 - For web servers, one should not provide non-local access to the
348 /usr/share/doc hierarchy. If one can't provide access controls for
349 the http://localhost/doc/ directory, then it is preferred that one
350 ask permission to expose that information during the install. [11.5]
351 - There are new rules for build-indep/build-arch targets and
352 there is a new Build-Depend-Indep semantic. [7]
356 - Manpages should not rely on header information to have
357 alternative manpage names available; it should only use
358 symlinks or .so pages to do this [12.1]
359 - [Clarified note in 3.5.3.0 upgrading checklist regarding
360 examples and templates: this refers only to those examples used
361 by scripts; see section 10.7.3 for the whole story]
362 - Included a new section 10.9.1 describing the use of
363 dpkg-statoverride; this does not have the weight of policy
364 - Clarify Standards-Version: you don't need to rebuild your
365 packages just to change the Standards-Version!
366 - Plugins are no longer bound by all the rules of shared
368 - X Windows related things:
369 * Clarification of priority levels of X Window System related
371 * Rules for defining x-terminal-emulator improved [11.8.3]
372 * X Font policy rewritten: you must read this if you provide
373 fonts for the X Window System [11.8.5]
374 * Packages must not ship /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/ [11.8.6]
375 * X-related packages should usually use the regular FHS
376 locations; imake-using packages are exempted from this [11.8.7]
377 * OpenMotif linked binaries have the same rules as
378 OSF/Motif-linked ones [11.8.8]
382 - The system-wide mail directory is now /var/mail, no longer
383 /var/spool/mail. Any packages accessing the mail spool should
384 access it via /var/mail and include a suitable Depends field;
386 - The perl policy is now part of Debian policy proper. Perl
387 programs and modules should follow the current Perl policy
392 - Build-Depends arch syntax has been changed to be less
393 ambiguous. This should not affect any current packages [7.1]
394 - Examples and templates files for use by scripts should now live
395 in /usr/share/<package> or /usr/lib/<package>, with
396 symbolic links from /usr/share/doc/<package>/examples as
401 - X app-defaults directory has moved from
402 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults to /etc/X11/app-defaults [11.8.6]
406 - dpkg-shlibdeps now uses objdump, so shared libraries have to be
407 run through dpkg-shlibdeps as well as executables [8.1]
411 - Font packages for the X Window System must now declare a
412 dependency on xutils (>= 4.0.2) [11.8.5]
416 - Daemon startup scripts in /etc/init.d/ should not contain
417 modifiable parameters; these should be moved to a file in
418 /etc/default/; see [9.3.2] for details
419 - Files in /usr/share/doc must not be referenced by any
420 program. If such files are needed, they must be placed in
421 /usr/share/<package>/, and symbolic links created as required
422 in /usr/share/doc/<package>/ [12.3]
423 - Much of the packaging manual has now been imported into the
428 - A package of priority standard or higher may provide two
429 binaries, one compiled with support for the X Window System,
430 and the other without [11.8.1]
434 - By default executables should not be built with the debugging
435 option -g. Instead, it is recommended to support building the
436 package with debugging information optionally. Details in [10.1]
437 - Policy for packages where the upstream uses HTML changelog
438 files has been expanded. In short, a plain text changelog file
439 should always be generated for the upstream changes [12.8]
440 - Please note that the new release of the X window system (3.2)
441 shall probably need sweeping changes in policy
442 - Policy for packages providing the following X-based features
444 - X server (virtual package xserver) [11.8.2]
445 - X terminal emulator (virtual package x-terminal-emulator) [11.8.3]
446 - X window manager (virtual package x-window-manager, and
447 /usr/bin/x-window-manager alternative, with priority
448 calculation guidelines) [11.8.4]
449 - X fonts (this section has been written from scratch) [12.8.5]
450 - X application defaults [11.8.6]
451 - Policy for packages using the X Window System and FHS issues
452 has been clarified; see [11.8.7]
453 - No package may contain or make hard links to conffiles [11.7.3]
454 - Noted that newer dpkg versions do not require extreme care in
455 always creating the shared lib before the symlink, so the unpack
460 - Correction to semantics of architecture lists in Build-Depends
461 etc. Should not affect many packages [7.1]
465 - /usr/doc/<package> has to be a symlink pointing to
466 /usr/share/doc/<package>, to be maintained by postinst
467 and prerm scripts. Details are in [defunct]
468 - Introduced source dependencies (Build-Depends, etc.) [7.1, 7.6]
469 - /etc/rc.boot has been deprecated in favour of /etc/rcS.d.
470 (Packages should not be touching this directory, but should use
471 update-rc.d instead) [9.3.4]
472 - update-rc.d is now the *only* allowable way of accessing the
473 /etc/rc?.d/[SK]??* links. Any scripts which manipulate them
474 directly must be changed to use update-rc.d instead. (This is
475 because the file-rc package handles this information in an
476 incompatible way.) [9.3.3]
477 - Architecture-specific examples go in /usr/lib/<package>/examples
478 with symlinks from /usr/share/doc/<package>/examples/* or from
479 /usr/share/doc/<package>/examples itself [12.7]
480 - Updated FHS to a 2.1 draft; this reverts /var/state to
482 - Added MIME sub-policy document [9.7; mime-policy]
483 - VISUAL is allowed as a (higher priority) alternative to EDITOR [12.4]
484 - Modified liblockfile description, which affects
485 mailbox-accessing programs. Please see the policy document for
487 - If a package provides a changelog in HTML format, a text-only
488 version should also be included. (Such a version may be prepared
489 using lynx -dump -nolist.) [12.7]
490 - Description of how to handle version numbers based on dates
495 - Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
496 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
497 .la files must go in the run-time library package [10.2]
501 - Debian formally moves from the FSSTND to the FHS. This is a
502 major change, and the implications of this move are probably
504 - Only 3 digits of the Standards version need be included in
505 control files, though all four digits are still permitted. [4.1]
506 - The location of the GPL has changed to
507 /usr/share/common-licenses. This may require changing the
508 copyright files to point to the correct location of the GPL and
509 other major licenses [12.6]
510 - Packages that use libtool to create shared libraries must
511 include the .la files in the -dev packages [10.2]
512 - Use logrotate to rotate log files [10.8]
513 - section 5.8 has been rewritten (Programs for the X Window
515 - There is now an associated menu policy, in a separate document,
516 that carries the full weight of Debian policy [9.6; menu-policy]
517 - Programs which need to modify the files /var/run/utmp,
518 /var/log/wtmp and /var/log/lastlog must be installed setgid utmp [11.3]
521 ** Please note that section numbers below this point may not be up to date **
527 - Rearranged the manual to create a new Section 4, Files
528 + Section 3.3 ("Files") was moved to Section 4. The Sections
529 that were Section 4 and Section 5 were moved down to become
530 Section 5 and Section 6.
531 + What was Section 5.5 ("Log files") is now a subsection of the
532 new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8, placed after
533 "Configuration files", moving the Section 4.8 ("Permissions
534 and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the old
535 Section 5 after 5.5 were moved down to fill in the number
537 - Modified the section about changelog files to accommodate
538 upstream changelogs which were formatted as HTML/ These
539 upstream changelog files should now be accessible as
540 /usr/doc/package/changelog.html.gz
541 + Symlinks are permissible to link the real, or upstream,
542 changelog name to the Debian mandated name.
543 - Clarified that HTML documentation should be present in some
544 package, though not necessarily the main binary package.
545 - Corrected all references to the location of the copyright
546 files. The correct location is /usr/doc/package/copyright
547 - Ratified the architecture specification strings to cater to the
553 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
554 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
555 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
556 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
558 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
559 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
560 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
563 - Updated prefix of chapter 12, Shared Libraries:
564 ldconfig must be called in the postinst script if the package
565 installs shared libraries
566 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue #6, fixes:bug#20515)
570 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
571 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
572 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
574 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
575 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
578 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
579 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
580 file extension as the referenced file
582 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
583 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
585 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
586 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
587 start, stop, restart, force-reload
588 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
591 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
592 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
593 be installed into /etc/cron.d
595 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
596 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
597 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
598 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
601 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
602 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
605 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
606 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
607 reasonable default configuration
609 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
610 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
611 by all news servers and clients
613 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Window System:
614 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
615 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
616 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
617 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
619 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
620 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
623 2.3.0.1, 2.3.0.0 Sep 1997
625 * new section `4.2 Daemons' including rules for
626 /etc/services, /etc/protocols, /etc/rpc, and /etc/inetd.conf
628 * updated section about `Configuration files':
629 packages may not touch other packages' configuration files
631 * MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
635 * added section 4.1 `Architecture specification strings':
638 where <arch> is one of the following:
639 i386, alpha, arm, m68k, powerpc, sparc.
641 * detailed rules for /usr/local
645 * editor/pager policy
651 * don't install shared libraries as executable
653 * app-defaults files may not be conffiles
655 2.1.3.2, 2.1.3.1, 2.1.3.0 Mar 1997
657 * two programs with different functionality must not have the
662 * "Standard for Console Messages"
664 * Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
666 * Libraries should be stripped with "strip --strip-unneeded"
668 2.1.2.2, 2.1.2.1, 2.1.2.0 Nov 1996
670 * Some changes WRT shared libraries
674 * No hard links in source packages
676 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation
678 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped
682 * Upstream changelog must be installed too
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