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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]
51 * The Debian archive software does not support uploading to multiple
52 distributions with one *.changes file. [5.6.14]
53 * The Binary field may span multiple lines. [5.6.19]
54 * Remove the permission for shared library packages to install
55 libraries in a non-standard location and modify ld.so.conf.
56 Packages should either be installed in a standard library directory
57 or packages using them should be built with RPATH. [10.2]
58 * Clarify installation directories for X programs and remove the
59 requirement to pre-depend on x11-common before installing into
60 /usr/include/X11 and /usr/lib/X11. [11.8.7]
61 * Remove the requirement that all characters in a manual page be
62 representable in the legacy encoding for that language. [12.1]
63 * Localized man pages should either be kept up-to-date with the
64 original version or warn that they're not up-to-date, either with
65 warning text or by showing missing or changed portions in the
66 original language. [12.1]
67 * install-info is now handled via triggers so packages no longer need
68 to invoke it in maintainer scripts. Info documents should now have
69 directory sections and entries in the document. [12.2]
70 * The requirement for Perl modules to have a versioned Depend and
71 Build-Depend on perl >= 5.6.0-16 has been removed. [perl]
75 * The list of archive sections has been significantly expanded. See
76 http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/03/msg00010.html
77 for the list of new sections and rules for how to categorize
79 * All packages must use debconf or equivalent for user prompting,
80 though essential packages or their dependencies may also fall
81 back on other methods. [3.9.1]
82 * The requirements for source package names are now explicitly
84 * Legacy XFree86 servers no longer get a special exception from the
85 FHS permitting /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. [9.1]
86 * Removed obsolete dependency requirements for packages that use
88 * Speedo fonts are now deprecated. The X backend was disabled
89 starting in lenny. [11.8.5]
90 * The GNU Free Documentation License version 1.3 is included in
91 common-licenses and should be referenced from there. [12.5]
95 * Care should be taken when adding functionality to essential and
96 such additions create an obligation to support that functionality
97 in essential forever unless significant work is done. [3.8]
98 * Changelog files must be encoded in UTF-8. [4.4]
99 * Tighten some format requirements for changelog files from a should
101 * Remove alternative changelog formats. Debian only supports one
102 changelog format for the Debian Archive. [4.4.1]
103 * New nocheck option for DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS indicating any build-time
104 test suite provided by the package should not be run. [4.9.1]
105 * All control files must be encoded in UTF-8. [5.1]
106 * debian/control allows comment lines starting with # with no
107 preceding whitespace. [5.2]
108 * Init scripts ending in .sh are not handled specially. They are not
109 sourced and are not guaranteed to be run by /bin/sh regardless of
110 the #! line. This brings Policy in line with the long-standing
111 behavior of the init system in Debian. [9.3]
112 * The start action of an init script must exit successfully and not
113 start the daemon again if it's already running. [9.3.2]
114 * /var/run and /var/lock may be mounted as temporary filesystems, and
115 init scripts must therefore create any necessary subdirectories
117 * /bin/sh scripts may assume that local can take multiple variable
118 arguments and supports assignment. [10.4]
119 * User mailboxes may be mode 600 and owned by the user rather than
120 mode 660, owned by user, and group mail. [11.6]
124 * The base section has been removed. contrib and non-free have been
125 removed from the section list; they are only categories. The base
126 system is now defined by priority. [2.4, 3.7]
127 * If dpkg-source -x doesn't provide the source that will be compiled,
128 a debian/rules patch target is recommended and should do whatever
129 else is necessary. [4.9]
130 * Standardized the format of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Specified permitted
131 characters for tags, required that tags be whitespace-separated,
132 allowed packages to assume non-conflicting tags, and required
133 unknown flags be ignored. [4.9.1, 10.1]
134 * Added parallel=n to the standardized DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS tags,
135 indicating that a package should be built using up to n parallel
136 processes if the package supports it [4.9.1]
137 * Debian packages should not use convenience copies of code from other
138 packages unless the included package is explicitly intended to be
139 used that way. [4.13]
140 * If dpkg-source -x doesn't produce source ready for editing and
141 building with dpkg-buildpackage, packages should include a
142 debian/README.source file explaining how to generate the patched
143 source, add a new modification, and remove an existing
144 modification. This file may also be used to document packaging a
145 new upstream release and any other complexity of the Debian build
147 * The Uploaders field in debian/control may be wrapped. [5.6.3]
148 * An empty Debian revision is equivalent to a Debian revision of 0 in
149 a version number. [5.6.12]
150 * New Homepage field for upstream web sites. [5.6.23]
151 * The Breaks field declares that this package breaks another and
152 prevents installation of the breaking package unless the package
153 named in Breaks is deconfigured first. This field should not be
154 used until the dpkg in Debian stable supports it. [6.5, 6.6, 7]
155 * Clarify which files should go into a shared library package, into a
156 separate package, or into the -dev package. Suggest -tools instead
157 of -runtime for runtime support programs, since that naming is more
158 common in Debian. [8.1, 8.2]
159 * Files in /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly} must be
160 configuration files (upgraded from should). Mention the hourly
162 * Packages providing /etc/X11/Xresources files need not conflict with
163 xbase (<< 3.3.2.3a-2), which is long-obsolete. [11.8.6]
164 * Manual pages in locale-specific directories should use either the
165 legacy encoding for that directory or UTF-8. Country names should
166 not be included in locale-specific manual page directories unless
167 indicating a significant difference in the language. All
168 characters in the manual page source should be representable in the
169 legacy encoding for a locale even if the man page is encoded in
171 * The Apache 2.0 license is now in common-licenses and should be
172 referenced rather than quoted in debian/copyright. [12.5]
173 * Packages in contrib and non-free should state in the copyright file
174 that the package is not part of Debian GNU/Linux and briefly
176 * Underscore (_) is allowed in debconf template names. [debconf]
180 * Package version numbers may contain tildes, which sort before
181 anything, even the end of a part. [5.6.12]
182 * Scripts may assume that /bin/sh supports local (at a basic level)
183 and that its test builtin (if any) supports -a and -o binary
184 logical operators. [10.4]
185 * The substitution variable ${binary:Version} should be used in place
186 of ${Source-Version} for dependencies between packages of the same
188 * Substantial reorganization and renaming of sections in the Debian
189 menu structure. Packages with menu entries should be reviewed to
190 see if the menu section has been renamed or if one of the new
191 sections would be more appropriate. [menu policy]
192 * The Source field in a .changes file may contain a version number
193 in parentheses. [5.6.1]
194 * The acceptable values for the Urgency field are low, medium, high,
195 critical, or emergency. [5.6.17]
196 * The shlibs file now allows an optional type field, indicating the
197 type of package for which the line is valid. The only currently
198 supported type is udeb, used with packages for the Debian
200 * Packages following the Debian Configuration management
201 specification must allow for translation of their messages by using
202 a gettext-based system such as po-debconf. [3.9.1]
203 * GFDL 1.2, GPL 3, and LGPL 3 are now in common-licenses and should
204 be referenced rather than quoted in debian/copyright. [12.5]
208 * Maintainer scripts must not be world writeable (up from a
209 should to a must) [6.1]
213 * Revert the cgi-lib change. [11.5]
217 * It is now possible to create shared libraries without
218 relocatable code (using -fPIC) in certain exceptional cases,
219 provided some procedures are followed, and for creating static
220 libraries with relocatable code (again, using -fPIC).
221 Discussion on debian-devel@lists.debian.org, getting a rough
222 consensus, and documenting it in README.Debian constitute most
223 of the process. [10.2]
224 * Packages should install any relevant files into the directories
225 /usr/include/X11/and /usr/lib/X11/, but if they do so, they
226 must pre-depend on x11-common (>= 1:7.0.0) [11.8.7]
230 * Packages shipping web server CGI files are expected to install
231 them in /usr/lib/cgi-lib/ directories. This location change
232 perhaps should be documented in NEWS [11.5]
233 * Web server packages should include a standard scriptAlias of
234 cgi-lib to /usr/lib/cgi-lib. [11.5]
235 * The version of FHS mandated by policy has been upped to
236 2.3. There should be no changes required for most packages,
237 though new top level directories /media, /srv, etc may be of
239 * All fields, apart from the Uploaders field, in the control file
240 are supposed to be a single logical line, which may be spread
241 over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space is
242 elided). However, any parser for the control file must allow
243 the Uploaders field to be spread over multiple physical lines
244 as well, to prepare for future changes. [ 5.1, 5.6.3 ]
245 * When scripts are installed into a directory in the system
246 PATH, the script name should not include an extension that
247 denotes the scripting language currently used to implement it.
249 * packages that invoke initscripts now must use invoke-rc.d to do
250 so since it also pays attention to run levels and other local
251 constraints. [ 9.3.3.2 ]
252 * We no longer use /usr/X11R6, since we have migrated away to
253 using Xorg paths. This means, for one thing, fonts live in
254 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ now, and /usr/X11R6 is gone.
255 [ 11.8.5.2, 11.8.7, etc]
259 * Recommend doc-base, and not menu, for registering package documentation.
260 * Run time support programs should live in subdirectories of
261 /usr/lib/ or /usr/share, and preferably the shared lib is named
262 the same as the package name (to avoid name collisions). [8.1]
263 * It is recommended that HTTP servers provide an alias /images to
264 allow packages to share image files with the web server [11.5]
268 + Prompting the user should be done using debconf. Non debconf
269 user prompts are now deprecated. [3.10.1]
273 - Restructuring causing shifts in section numbers and bumping of
274 the minor version number:
275 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
276 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
277 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
278 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
279 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
280 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
281 optional based on the current practice and the behavior of the
282 deb-building tool-chain.
283 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
284 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
285 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
286 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
287 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
288 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
289 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
290 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
291 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
292 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
293 sections about changelog files.
294 - Added Games/Simulation and Apps/Education to menu sub-policy
296 - Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. [C.2.2]
297 - shared libraries must be linked against all libraries that they
298 use symbols from in the same way that binaries are. [10.2]
299 - build-depends-indep need not be satisfied during clean
304 - packages providing the x-terminal-emulator virtual package
305 ought to ensure that they interpret the command line exactly
306 like xterm does. [11.8.3]
307 - Window managers compliant with the Window Manager Specification
308 Project may add 40 points for ranking in the alternatives [11.8.4]
312 - The section describing the Description: package field once again has
313 full details of the long description format. [3.4.2]
314 - Clarified that if a package has non-build-essential
315 build-dependencies, it should have them listed in the Build-Depends
316 and related fields (i.e. it's not merely optional). [4.2]
317 - When asked to restart a service that isn't already running,
318 the init script should start the service. [9.3.2]
319 - If the purpose of a package is to provide examples, then the
320 example files can be installed into <tt>/usr/share/doc/package</tt>
321 (rather than <tt>/usr/share/doc/package/examples</tt>). [12.6]
325 - It is no longer necessary to keep a log of changes to the upstream
326 sources in the copyright file. Instead, all such changes should be
327 documented in the changelog file. [12.7]
328 - <tt>Build-Depends</tt>, <tt>Build-Conflicts</tt>,
329 <tt>Build-Depends-Indep</tt>, and
330 <tt>Build-Conflicts-Indep</tt> must also be satisfied when the
331 clean target is called. [7.6]
332 - A new Apps/Science menu section is available [menu policy]
333 - debconf specification cleared up, various changes. [debconf
335 - It is no longer recommended to create symlinks from nonexistent
336 manual pages to undocumented(7). Missing manual pages for programs
337 are still a bug. [12.1]
341 - Packages no longer have to ask permission to call MAKEDEV in
342 postinst, merely notifying the user ought to be enough. [10.6]
343 - cryptographic software may now be included in the main
345 - task packages are no longer permitted; tasks are now created by a
346 special Tasks: field in the control file. [3.9]
347 - window managers that support netwm can now add 20 points when
348 they add themselves as an alternative for
349 /usr/bin/x-window-manager [11.8.4]
350 - The default compilation options have now changed, one should
351 provide debugging symbols in all cases, and optionally step
352 back optimization to -O0, depending on the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS
353 environment variable. [10.1]
354 - Added mention of build-arch, build-indep, etc, in describing
355 the relationships with `Build-Depends', `Build-Conflicts',
356 `Build-Depends-Indep', and `Build-Conflicts-Indep'. May need to
357 review the new rules. [7.6, 4.8]
358 - Changed rules on how, and when, to invoke ldconfig in maintainer
359 scripts. Long rationale. [8]
360 - [Added the last note in 3.5.6 upgrading checklist item regarding
361 build rules, please see below]
365 - Emacs and TeX are no longer mandated by policy to be priority
366 standard packages [2.5]
367 - Programs that access docs need to do so via /usr/share/doc, and
368 not via /usr/doc/ as was the policy previously [11.5]
369 - Putting documentation in /usr/doc versus /usr/share/doc is now
370 a ``serious'' policy violation. [12.3]
371 - For web servers, one should not provide non-local access to the
372 /usr/share/doc hierarchy. If one can't provide access controls for
373 the http://localhost/doc/ directory, then it is preferred that one
374 ask permission to expose that information during the install. [11.5]
375 - There are new rules for build-indep/build-arch targets and
376 there is a new Build-Depend-Indep semantic. [7]
380 - Manpages should not rely on header information to have
381 alternative manpage names available; it should only use
382 symlinks or .so pages to do this [12.1]
383 - [Clarified note in 3.5.3.0 upgrading checklist regarding
384 examples and templates: this refers only to those examples used
385 by scripts; see section 10.7.3 for the whole story]
386 - Included a new section 10.9.1 describing the use of
387 dpkg-statoverride; this does not have the weight of policy
388 - Clarify Standards-Version: you don't need to rebuild your
389 packages just to change the Standards-Version!
390 - Plugins are no longer bound by all the rules of shared
392 - X Windows related things:
393 * Clarification of priority levels of X Window System related
395 * Rules for defining x-terminal-emulator improved [11.8.3]
396 * X Font policy rewritten: you must read this if you provide
397 fonts for the X Window System [11.8.5]
398 * Packages must not ship /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/ [11.8.6]
399 * X-related packages should usually use the regular FHS
400 locations; imake-using packages are exempted from this [11.8.7]
401 * OpenMotif linked binaries have the same rules as
402 OSF/Motif-linked ones [11.8.8]
406 - The system-wide mail directory is now /var/mail, no longer
407 /var/spool/mail. Any packages accessing the mail spool should
408 access it via /var/mail and include a suitable Depends field;
410 - The perl policy is now part of Debian policy proper. Perl
411 programs and modules should follow the current Perl policy
416 - Build-Depends arch syntax has been changed to be less
417 ambiguous. This should not affect any current packages [7.1]
418 - Examples and templates files for use by scripts should now live
419 in /usr/share/<package> or /usr/lib/<package>, with
420 symbolic links from /usr/share/doc/<package>/examples as
425 - X app-defaults directory has moved from
426 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults to /etc/X11/app-defaults [11.8.6]
430 - dpkg-shlibdeps now uses objdump, so shared libraries have to be
431 run through dpkg-shlibdeps as well as executables [8.1]
435 - Font packages for the X Window System must now declare a
436 dependency on xutils (>= 4.0.2) [11.8.5]
440 - Daemon startup scripts in /etc/init.d/ should not contain
441 modifiable parameters; these should be moved to a file in
442 /etc/default/; see [9.3.2] for details
443 - Files in /usr/share/doc must not be referenced by any
444 program. If such files are needed, they must be placed in
445 /usr/share/<package>/, and symbolic links created as required
446 in /usr/share/doc/<package>/ [12.3]
447 - Much of the packaging manual has now been imported into the
452 - A package of priority standard or higher may provide two
453 binaries, one compiled with support for the X Window System,
454 and the other without [11.8.1]
458 - By default executables should not be built with the debugging
459 option -g. Instead, it is recommended to support building the
460 package with debugging information optionally. Details in [10.1]
461 - Policy for packages where the upstream uses HTML changelog
462 files has been expanded. In short, a plain text changelog file
463 should always be generated for the upstream changes [12.8]
464 - Please note that the new release of the X window system (3.2)
465 shall probably need sweeping changes in policy
466 - Policy for packages providing the following X-based features
468 - X server (virtual package xserver) [11.8.2]
469 - X terminal emulator (virtual package x-terminal-emulator) [11.8.3]
470 - X window manager (virtual package x-window-manager, and
471 /usr/bin/x-window-manager alternative, with priority
472 calculation guidelines) [11.8.4]
473 - X fonts (this section has been written from scratch) [12.8.5]
474 - X application defaults [11.8.6]
475 - Policy for packages using the X Window System and FHS issues
476 has been clarified; see [11.8.7]
477 - No package may contain or make hard links to conffiles [11.7.3]
478 - Noted that newer dpkg versions do not require extreme care in
479 always creating the shared lib before the symlink, so the unpack
484 - Correction to semantics of architecture lists in Build-Depends
485 etc. Should not affect many packages [7.1]
489 - /usr/doc/<package> has to be a symlink pointing to
490 /usr/share/doc/<package>, to be maintained by postinst
491 and prerm scripts. Details are in [defunct]
492 - Introduced source dependencies (Build-Depends, etc.) [7.1, 7.6]
493 - /etc/rc.boot has been deprecated in favour of /etc/rcS.d.
494 (Packages should not be touching this directory, but should use
495 update-rc.d instead) [9.3.4]
496 - update-rc.d is now the *only* allowable way of accessing the
497 /etc/rc?.d/[SK]??* links. Any scripts which manipulate them
498 directly must be changed to use update-rc.d instead. (This is
499 because the file-rc package handles this information in an
500 incompatible way.) [9.3.3]
501 - Architecture-specific examples go in /usr/lib/<package>/examples
502 with symlinks from /usr/share/doc/<package>/examples/* or from
503 /usr/share/doc/<package>/examples itself [12.7]
504 - Updated FHS to a 2.1 draft; this reverts /var/state to
506 - Added MIME sub-policy document [9.7; mime-policy]
507 - VISUAL is allowed as a (higher priority) alternative to EDITOR [12.4]
508 - Modified liblockfile description, which affects
509 mailbox-accessing programs. Please see the policy document for
511 - If a package provides a changelog in HTML format, a text-only
512 version should also be included. (Such a version may be prepared
513 using lynx -dump -nolist.) [12.7]
514 - Description of how to handle version numbers based on dates
519 - Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
520 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
521 .la files must go in the run-time library package [10.2]
525 - Debian formally moves from the FSSTND to the FHS. This is a
526 major change, and the implications of this move are probably
528 - Only 3 digits of the Standards version need be included in
529 control files, though all four digits are still permitted. [4.1]
530 - The location of the GPL has changed to
531 /usr/share/common-licenses. This may require changing the
532 copyright files to point to the correct location of the GPL and
533 other major licenses [12.6]
534 - Packages that use libtool to create shared libraries must
535 include the .la files in the -dev packages [10.2]
536 - Use logrotate to rotate log files [10.8]
537 - section 5.8 has been rewritten (Programs for the X Window
539 - There is now an associated menu policy, in a separate document,
540 that carries the full weight of Debian policy [9.6; menu-policy]
541 - Programs which need to modify the files /var/run/utmp,
542 /var/log/wtmp and /var/log/lastlog must be installed setgid utmp [11.3]
545 ** Please note that section numbers below this point may not be up to date **
551 - Rearranged the manual to create a new Section 4, Files
552 + Section 3.3 ("Files") was moved to Section 4. The Sections
553 that were Section 4 and Section 5 were moved down to become
554 Section 5 and Section 6.
555 + What was Section 5.5 ("Log files") is now a subsection of the
556 new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8, placed after
557 "Configuration files", moving the Section 4.8 ("Permissions
558 and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the old
559 Section 5 after 5.5 were moved down to fill in the number
561 - Modified the section about changelog files to accommodate
562 upstream changelogs which were formatted as HTML/ These
563 upstream changelog files should now be accessible as
564 /usr/doc/package/changelog.html.gz
565 + Symlinks are permissible to link the real, or upstream,
566 changelog name to the Debian mandated name.
567 - Clarified that HTML documentation should be present in some
568 package, though not necessarily the main binary package.
569 - Corrected all references to the location of the copyright
570 files. The correct location is /usr/doc/package/copyright
571 - Ratified the architecture specification strings to cater to the
577 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
578 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
579 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
580 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
582 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
583 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
584 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
587 - Updated prefix of chapter 12, Shared Libraries:
588 ldconfig must be called in the postinst script if the package
589 installs shared libraries
590 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue #6, fixes:bug#20515)
594 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
595 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
596 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
598 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
599 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
602 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
603 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
604 file extension as the referenced file
606 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
607 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
609 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
610 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
611 start, stop, restart, force-reload
612 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
615 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
616 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
617 be installed into /etc/cron.d
619 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
620 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
621 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
622 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
625 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
626 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
629 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
630 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
631 reasonable default configuration
633 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
634 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
635 by all news servers and clients
637 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Window System:
638 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
639 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
640 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
641 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
643 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
644 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
647 2.3.0.1, 2.3.0.0 Sep 1997
649 * new section `4.2 Daemons' including rules for
650 /etc/services, /etc/protocols, /etc/rpc, and /etc/inetd.conf
652 * updated section about `Configuration files':
653 packages may not touch other packages' configuration files
655 * MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
659 * added section 4.1 `Architecture specification strings':
662 where <arch> is one of the following:
663 i386, alpha, arm, m68k, powerpc, sparc.
665 * detailed rules for /usr/local
669 * editor/pager policy
675 * don't install shared libraries as executable
677 * app-defaults files may not be conffiles
679 2.1.3.2, 2.1.3.1, 2.1.3.0 Mar 1997
681 * two programs with different functionality must not have the
686 * "Standard for Console Messages"
688 * Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
690 * Libraries should be stripped with "strip --strip-unneeded"
692 2.1.2.2, 2.1.2.1, 2.1.2.0 Nov 1996
694 * Some changes WRT shared libraries
698 * No hard links in source packages
700 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation
702 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped
706 * Upstream changelog must be installed too
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