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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]
48 * Source package Architecture fields may contain "all" in combination
49 with other architectures. Clarify when "all" and "any" may be used
50 in different versions of the field. [5.6.8]
54 * The list of archive sections has been significantly expanded. See
55 http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/03/msg00010.html
56 for the list of new sections and rules for how to categorize
58 * All packages must use debconf or equivalent for user prompting,
59 though essential packages or their dependencies may also fall
60 back on other methods. [3.9.1]
61 * The requirements for source package names are now explicitly
63 * Legacy XFree86 servers no longer get a special exception from the
64 FHS permitting /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. [9.1]
65 * Removed obsolete dependency requirements for packages that use
67 * Speedo fonts are now deprecated. The X backend was disabled
68 starting in lenny. [11.8.5]
69 * The GNU Free Documentation License version 1.3 is included in
70 common-licenses and should be referenced from there. [12.5]
74 * Care should be taken when adding functionality to essential and
75 such additions create an obligation to support that functionality
76 in essential forever unless significant work is done. [3.8]
77 * Changelog files must be encoded in UTF-8. [4.4]
78 * Tighten some format requirements for changelog files from a should
80 * Remove alternative changelog formats. Debian only supports one
81 changelog format for the Debian Archive. [4.4.1]
82 * New nocheck option for DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS indicating any build-time
83 test suite provided by the package should not be run. [4.9.1]
84 * All control files must be encoded in UTF-8. [5.1]
85 * debian/control allows comment lines starting with # with no
86 preceding whitespace. [5.2]
87 * Init scripts ending in .sh are not handled specially. They are not
88 sourced and are not guaranteed to be run by /bin/sh regardless of
89 the #! line. This brings Policy in line with the long-standing
90 behavior of the init system in Debian. [9.3]
91 * The start action of an init script must exit successfully and not
92 start the daemon again if it's already running. [9.3.2]
93 * /var/run and /var/lock may be mounted as temporary filesystems, and
94 init scripts must therefore create any necessary subdirectories
96 * /bin/sh scripts may assume that local can take multiple variable
97 arguments and supports assignment. [10.4]
98 * User mailboxes may be mode 600 and owned by the user rather than
99 mode 660, owned by user, and group mail. [11.6]
103 * The base section has been removed. contrib and non-free have been
104 removed from the section list; they are only categories. The base
105 system is now defined by priority. [2.4, 3.7]
106 * If dpkg-source -x doesn't provide the source that will be compiled,
107 a debian/rules patch target is recommended and should do whatever
108 else is necessary. [4.9]
109 * Standardized the format of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Specified permitted
110 characters for tags, required that tags be whitespace-separated,
111 allowed packages to assume non-conflicting tags, and required
112 unknown flags be ignored. [4.9.1, 10.1]
113 * Added parallel=n to the standardized DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS tags,
114 indicating that a package should be built using up to n parallel
115 processes if the package supports it [4.9.1]
116 * Debian packages should not use convenience copies of code from other
117 packages unless the included package is explicitly intended to be
118 used that way. [4.13]
119 * If dpkg-source -x doesn't produce source ready for editing and
120 building with dpkg-buildpackage, packages should include a
121 debian/README.source file explaining how to generate the patched
122 source, add a new modification, and remove an existing
123 modification. This file may also be used to document packaging a
124 new upstream release and any other complexity of the Debian build
126 * The Uploaders field in debian/control may be wrapped. [5.6.3]
127 * An empty Debian revision is equivalent to a Debian revision of 0 in
128 a version number. [5.6.12]
129 * New Homepage field for upstream web sites. [5.6.23]
130 * The Breaks field declares that this package breaks another and
131 prevents installation of the breaking package unless the package
132 named in Breaks is deconfigured first. This field should not be
133 used until the dpkg in Debian stable supports it. [6.5, 6.6, 7]
134 * Clarify which files should go into a shared library package, into a
135 separate package, or into the -dev package. Suggest -tools instead
136 of -runtime for runtime support programs, since that naming is more
137 common in Debian. [8.1, 8.2]
138 * Files in /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly} must be
139 configuration files (upgraded from should). Mention the hourly
141 * Packages providing /etc/X11/Xresources files need not conflict with
142 xbase (<< 3.3.2.3a-2), which is long-obsolete. [11.8.6]
143 * Manual pages in locale-specific directories should use either the
144 legacy encoding for that directory or UTF-8. Country names should
145 not be included in locale-specific manual page directories unless
146 indicating a significant difference in the language. All
147 characters in the manual page source should be representable in the
148 legacy encoding for a locale even if the man page is encoded in
150 * The Apache 2.0 license is now in common-licenses and should be
151 referenced rather than quoted in debian/copyright. [12.5]
152 * Packages in contrib and non-free should state in the copyright file
153 that the package is not part of Debian GNU/Linux and briefly
155 * Underscore (_) is allowed in debconf template names. [debconf]
159 * Package version numbers may contain tildes, which sort before
160 anything, even the end of a part. [5.6.12]
161 * Scripts may assume that /bin/sh supports local (at a basic level)
162 and that its test builtin (if any) supports -a and -o binary
163 logical operators. [10.4]
164 * The substitution variable ${binary:Version} should be used in place
165 of ${Source-Version} for dependencies between packages of the same
167 * Substantial reorganization and renaming of sections in the Debian
168 menu structure. Packages with menu entries should be reviewed to
169 see if the menu section has been renamed or if one of the new
170 sections would be more appropriate. [menu policy]
171 * The Source field in a .changes file may contain a version number
172 in parentheses. [5.6.1]
173 * The acceptable values for the Urgency field are low, medium, high,
174 critical, or emergency. [5.6.17]
175 * The shlibs file now allows an optional type field, indicating the
176 type of package for which the line is valid. The only currently
177 supported type is udeb, used with packages for the Debian
179 * Packages following the Debian Configuration management
180 specification must allow for translation of their messages by using
181 a gettext-based system such as po-debconf. [3.9.1]
182 * GFDL 1.2, GPL 3, and LGPL 3 are now in common-licenses and should
183 be referenced rather than quoted in debian/copyright. [12.5]
187 * Maintainer scripts must not be world writeable (up from a
188 should to a must) [6.1]
192 * Revert the cgi-lib change. [11.5]
196 * It is now possible to create shared libraries without
197 relocatable code (using -fPIC) in certain exceptional cases,
198 provided some procedures are followed, and for creating static
199 libraries with relocatable code (again, using -fPIC).
200 Discussion on debian-devel@lists.debian.org, getting a rough
201 consensus, and documenting it in README.Debian constitute most
202 of the process. [10.2]
203 * Packages should install any relevant files into the directories
204 /usr/include/X11/and /usr/lib/X11/, but if they do so, they
205 must pre-depend on x11-common (>= 1:7.0.0) [11.8.7]
209 * Packages shipping web server CGI files are expected to install
210 them in /usr/lib/cgi-lib/ directories. This location change
211 perhaps should be documented in NEWS [11.5]
212 * Web server packages should include a standard scriptAlias of
213 cgi-lib to /usr/lib/cgi-lib. [11.5]
214 * The version of FHS mandated by policy has been upped to
215 2.3. There should be no changes required for most packages,
216 though new top level directories /media, /srv, etc may be of
218 * All fields, apart from the Uploaders field, in the control file
219 are supposed to be a single logical line, which may be spread
220 over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space is
221 elided). However, any parser for the control file must allow
222 the Uploaders field to be spread over multiple physical lines
223 as well, to prepare for future changes. [ 5.1, 5.6.3 ]
224 * When scripts are installed into a directory in the system
225 PATH, the script name should not include an extension that
226 denotes the scripting language currently used to implement it.
228 * packages that invoke initscripts now must use invoke-rc.d to do
229 so since it also pays attention to run levels and other local
230 constraints. [ 9.3.3.2 ]
231 * We no longer use /usr/X11R6, since we have migrated away to
232 using Xorg paths. This means, for one thing, fonts live in
233 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ now, and /usr/X11R6 is gone.
234 [ 11.8.5.2, 11.8.7, etc]
238 * Recommend doc-base, and not menu, for registering package documentation.
239 * Run time support programs should live in subdirectories of
240 /usr/lib/ or /usr/share, and preferably the shared lib is named
241 the same as the package name (to avoid name collisions). [8.1]
242 * It is recommended that HTTP servers provide an alias /images to
243 allow packages to share image files with the web server [11.5]
247 + Prompting the user should be done using debconf. Non debconf
248 user prompts are now deprecated. [3.10.1]
252 - Restructuring causing shifts in section numbers and bumping of
253 the minor version number:
254 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
255 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
256 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
257 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
258 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
259 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
260 optional based on the current practice and the behavior of the
261 deb-building tool-chain.
262 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
263 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
264 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
265 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
266 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
267 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
268 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
269 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
270 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
271 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
272 sections about changelog files.
273 - Added Games/Simulation and Apps/Education to menu sub-policy
275 - Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. [C.2.2]
276 - shared libraries must be linked against all libraries that they
277 use symbols from in the same way that binaries are. [10.2]
278 - build-depends-indep need not be satisfied during clean
283 - packages providing the x-terminal-emulator virtual package
284 ought to ensure that they interpret the command line exactly
285 like xterm does. [11.8.3]
286 - Window managers compliant with the Window Manager Specification
287 Project may add 40 points for ranking in the alternatives [11.8.4]
291 - The section describing the Description: package field once again has
292 full details of the long description format. [3.4.2]
293 - Clarified that if a package has non-build-essential
294 build-dependencies, it should have them listed in the Build-Depends
295 and related fields (i.e. it's not merely optional). [4.2]
296 - When asked to restart a service that isn't already running,
297 the init script should start the service. [9.3.2]
298 - If the purpose of a package is to provide examples, then the
299 example files can be installed into <tt>/usr/share/doc/package</tt>
300 (rather than <tt>/usr/share/doc/package/examples</tt>). [12.6]
304 - It is no longer necessary to keep a log of changes to the upstream
305 sources in the copyright file. Instead, all such changes should be
306 documented in the changelog file. [12.7]
307 - <tt>Build-Depends</tt>, <tt>Build-Conflicts</tt>,
308 <tt>Build-Depends-Indep</tt>, and
309 <tt>Build-Conflicts-Indep</tt> must also be satisfied when the
310 clean target is called. [7.6]
311 - A new Apps/Science menu section is available [menu policy]
312 - debconf specification cleared up, various changes. [debconf
314 - It is no longer recommended to create symlinks from nonexistent
315 manual pages to undocumented(7). Missing manual pages for programs
316 are still a bug. [12.1]
320 - Packages no longer have to ask permission to call MAKEDEV in
321 postinst, merely notifying the user ought to be enough. [10.6]
322 - cryptographic software may now be included in the main
324 - task packages are no longer permitted; tasks are now created by a
325 special Tasks: field in the control file. [3.9]
326 - window managers that support netwm can now add 20 points when
327 they add themselves as an alternative for
328 /usr/bin/x-window-manager [11.8.4]
329 - The default compilation options have now changed, one should
330 provide debugging symbols in all cases, and optionally step
331 back optimization to -O0, depending on the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS
332 environment variable. [10.1]
333 - Added mention of build-arch, build-indep, etc, in describing
334 the relationships with `Build-Depends', `Build-Conflicts',
335 `Build-Depends-Indep', and `Build-Conflicts-Indep'. May need to
336 review the new rules. [7.6, 4.8]
337 - Changed rules on how, and when, to invoke ldconfig in maintainer
338 scripts. Long rationale. [8]
339 - [Added the last note in 3.5.6 upgrading checklist item regarding
340 build rules, please see below]
344 - Emacs and TeX are no longer mandated by policy to be priority
345 standard packages [2.5]
346 - Programs that access docs need to do so via /usr/share/doc, and
347 not via /usr/doc/ as was the policy previously [11.5]
348 - Putting documentation in /usr/doc versus /usr/share/doc is now
349 a ``serious'' policy violation. [12.3]
350 - For web servers, one should not provide non-local access to the
351 /usr/share/doc hierarchy. If one can't provide access controls for
352 the http://localhost/doc/ directory, then it is preferred that one
353 ask permission to expose that information during the install. [11.5]
354 - There are new rules for build-indep/build-arch targets and
355 there is a new Build-Depend-Indep semantic. [7]
359 - Manpages should not rely on header information to have
360 alternative manpage names available; it should only use
361 symlinks or .so pages to do this [12.1]
362 - [Clarified note in 3.5.3.0 upgrading checklist regarding
363 examples and templates: this refers only to those examples used
364 by scripts; see section 10.7.3 for the whole story]
365 - Included a new section 10.9.1 describing the use of
366 dpkg-statoverride; this does not have the weight of policy
367 - Clarify Standards-Version: you don't need to rebuild your
368 packages just to change the Standards-Version!
369 - Plugins are no longer bound by all the rules of shared
371 - X Windows related things:
372 * Clarification of priority levels of X Window System related
374 * Rules for defining x-terminal-emulator improved [11.8.3]
375 * X Font policy rewritten: you must read this if you provide
376 fonts for the X Window System [11.8.5]
377 * Packages must not ship /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/ [11.8.6]
378 * X-related packages should usually use the regular FHS
379 locations; imake-using packages are exempted from this [11.8.7]
380 * OpenMotif linked binaries have the same rules as
381 OSF/Motif-linked ones [11.8.8]
385 - The system-wide mail directory is now /var/mail, no longer
386 /var/spool/mail. Any packages accessing the mail spool should
387 access it via /var/mail and include a suitable Depends field;
389 - The perl policy is now part of Debian policy proper. Perl
390 programs and modules should follow the current Perl policy
395 - Build-Depends arch syntax has been changed to be less
396 ambiguous. This should not affect any current packages [7.1]
397 - Examples and templates files for use by scripts should now live
398 in /usr/share/<package> or /usr/lib/<package>, with
399 symbolic links from /usr/share/doc/<package>/examples as
404 - X app-defaults directory has moved from
405 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults to /etc/X11/app-defaults [11.8.6]
409 - dpkg-shlibdeps now uses objdump, so shared libraries have to be
410 run through dpkg-shlibdeps as well as executables [8.1]
414 - Font packages for the X Window System must now declare a
415 dependency on xutils (>= 4.0.2) [11.8.5]
419 - Daemon startup scripts in /etc/init.d/ should not contain
420 modifiable parameters; these should be moved to a file in
421 /etc/default/; see [9.3.2] for details
422 - Files in /usr/share/doc must not be referenced by any
423 program. If such files are needed, they must be placed in
424 /usr/share/<package>/, and symbolic links created as required
425 in /usr/share/doc/<package>/ [12.3]
426 - Much of the packaging manual has now been imported into the
431 - A package of priority standard or higher may provide two
432 binaries, one compiled with support for the X Window System,
433 and the other without [11.8.1]
437 - By default executables should not be built with the debugging
438 option -g. Instead, it is recommended to support building the
439 package with debugging information optionally. Details in [10.1]
440 - Policy for packages where the upstream uses HTML changelog
441 files has been expanded. In short, a plain text changelog file
442 should always be generated for the upstream changes [12.8]
443 - Please note that the new release of the X window system (3.2)
444 shall probably need sweeping changes in policy
445 - Policy for packages providing the following X-based features
447 - X server (virtual package xserver) [11.8.2]
448 - X terminal emulator (virtual package x-terminal-emulator) [11.8.3]
449 - X window manager (virtual package x-window-manager, and
450 /usr/bin/x-window-manager alternative, with priority
451 calculation guidelines) [11.8.4]
452 - X fonts (this section has been written from scratch) [12.8.5]
453 - X application defaults [11.8.6]
454 - Policy for packages using the X Window System and FHS issues
455 has been clarified; see [11.8.7]
456 - No package may contain or make hard links to conffiles [11.7.3]
457 - Noted that newer dpkg versions do not require extreme care in
458 always creating the shared lib before the symlink, so the unpack
463 - Correction to semantics of architecture lists in Build-Depends
464 etc. Should not affect many packages [7.1]
468 - /usr/doc/<package> has to be a symlink pointing to
469 /usr/share/doc/<package>, to be maintained by postinst
470 and prerm scripts. Details are in [defunct]
471 - Introduced source dependencies (Build-Depends, etc.) [7.1, 7.6]
472 - /etc/rc.boot has been deprecated in favour of /etc/rcS.d.
473 (Packages should not be touching this directory, but should use
474 update-rc.d instead) [9.3.4]
475 - update-rc.d is now the *only* allowable way of accessing the
476 /etc/rc?.d/[SK]??* links. Any scripts which manipulate them
477 directly must be changed to use update-rc.d instead. (This is
478 because the file-rc package handles this information in an
479 incompatible way.) [9.3.3]
480 - Architecture-specific examples go in /usr/lib/<package>/examples
481 with symlinks from /usr/share/doc/<package>/examples/* or from
482 /usr/share/doc/<package>/examples itself [12.7]
483 - Updated FHS to a 2.1 draft; this reverts /var/state to
485 - Added MIME sub-policy document [9.7; mime-policy]
486 - VISUAL is allowed as a (higher priority) alternative to EDITOR [12.4]
487 - Modified liblockfile description, which affects
488 mailbox-accessing programs. Please see the policy document for
490 - If a package provides a changelog in HTML format, a text-only
491 version should also be included. (Such a version may be prepared
492 using lynx -dump -nolist.) [12.7]
493 - Description of how to handle version numbers based on dates
498 - Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
499 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
500 .la files must go in the run-time library package [10.2]
504 - Debian formally moves from the FSSTND to the FHS. This is a
505 major change, and the implications of this move are probably
507 - Only 3 digits of the Standards version need be included in
508 control files, though all four digits are still permitted. [4.1]
509 - The location of the GPL has changed to
510 /usr/share/common-licenses. This may require changing the
511 copyright files to point to the correct location of the GPL and
512 other major licenses [12.6]
513 - Packages that use libtool to create shared libraries must
514 include the .la files in the -dev packages [10.2]
515 - Use logrotate to rotate log files [10.8]
516 - section 5.8 has been rewritten (Programs for the X Window
518 - There is now an associated menu policy, in a separate document,
519 that carries the full weight of Debian policy [9.6; menu-policy]
520 - Programs which need to modify the files /var/run/utmp,
521 /var/log/wtmp and /var/log/lastlog must be installed setgid utmp [11.3]
524 ** Please note that section numbers below this point may not be up to date **
530 - Rearranged the manual to create a new Section 4, Files
531 + Section 3.3 ("Files") was moved to Section 4. The Sections
532 that were Section 4 and Section 5 were moved down to become
533 Section 5 and Section 6.
534 + What was Section 5.5 ("Log files") is now a subsection of the
535 new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8, placed after
536 "Configuration files", moving the Section 4.8 ("Permissions
537 and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the old
538 Section 5 after 5.5 were moved down to fill in the number
540 - Modified the section about changelog files to accommodate
541 upstream changelogs which were formatted as HTML/ These
542 upstream changelog files should now be accessible as
543 /usr/doc/package/changelog.html.gz
544 + Symlinks are permissible to link the real, or upstream,
545 changelog name to the Debian mandated name.
546 - Clarified that HTML documentation should be present in some
547 package, though not necessarily the main binary package.
548 - Corrected all references to the location of the copyright
549 files. The correct location is /usr/doc/package/copyright
550 - Ratified the architecture specification strings to cater to the
556 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
557 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
558 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
559 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
561 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
562 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
563 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
566 - Updated prefix of chapter 12, Shared Libraries:
567 ldconfig must be called in the postinst script if the package
568 installs shared libraries
569 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue #6, fixes:bug#20515)
573 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
574 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
575 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
577 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
578 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
581 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
582 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
583 file extension as the referenced file
585 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
586 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
588 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
589 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
590 start, stop, restart, force-reload
591 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
594 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
595 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
596 be installed into /etc/cron.d
598 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
599 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
600 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
601 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
604 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
605 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
608 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
609 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
610 reasonable default configuration
612 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
613 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
614 by all news servers and clients
616 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Window System:
617 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
618 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
619 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
620 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
622 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
623 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
626 2.3.0.1, 2.3.0.0 Sep 1997
628 * new section `4.2 Daemons' including rules for
629 /etc/services, /etc/protocols, /etc/rpc, and /etc/inetd.conf
631 * updated section about `Configuration files':
632 packages may not touch other packages' configuration files
634 * MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
638 * added section 4.1 `Architecture specification strings':
641 where <arch> is one of the following:
642 i386, alpha, arm, m68k, powerpc, sparc.
644 * detailed rules for /usr/local
648 * editor/pager policy
654 * don't install shared libraries as executable
656 * app-defaults files may not be conffiles
658 2.1.3.2, 2.1.3.1, 2.1.3.0 Mar 1997
660 * two programs with different functionality must not have the
665 * "Standard for Console Messages"
667 * Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
669 * Libraries should be stripped with "strip --strip-unneeded"
671 2.1.2.2, 2.1.2.1, 2.1.2.0 Nov 1996
673 * Some changes WRT shared libraries
677 * No hard links in source packages
679 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation
681 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped
685 * Upstream changelog must be installed too
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