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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 * Remove the permission for shared library packages to install
54 libraries in a non-standard location and modify ld.so.conf.
55 Packages should either be installed in a standard library directory
56 or packages using them should be built with RPATH. [10.2]
57 * The requirement for Perl modules to have a versioned Depend and
58 Build-Depend on perl >= 5.6.0-16 has been removed. [perl]
62 * The list of archive sections has been significantly expanded. See
63 http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/03/msg00010.html
64 for the list of new sections and rules for how to categorize
66 * All packages must use debconf or equivalent for user prompting,
67 though essential packages or their dependencies may also fall
68 back on other methods. [3.9.1]
69 * The requirements for source package names are now explicitly
71 * Legacy XFree86 servers no longer get a special exception from the
72 FHS permitting /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. [9.1]
73 * Removed obsolete dependency requirements for packages that use
75 * Speedo fonts are now deprecated. The X backend was disabled
76 starting in lenny. [11.8.5]
77 * The GNU Free Documentation License version 1.3 is included in
78 common-licenses and should be referenced from there. [12.5]
82 * Care should be taken when adding functionality to essential and
83 such additions create an obligation to support that functionality
84 in essential forever unless significant work is done. [3.8]
85 * Changelog files must be encoded in UTF-8. [4.4]
86 * Tighten some format requirements for changelog files from a should
88 * Remove alternative changelog formats. Debian only supports one
89 changelog format for the Debian Archive. [4.4.1]
90 * New nocheck option for DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS indicating any build-time
91 test suite provided by the package should not be run. [4.9.1]
92 * All control files must be encoded in UTF-8. [5.1]
93 * debian/control allows comment lines starting with # with no
94 preceding whitespace. [5.2]
95 * Init scripts ending in .sh are not handled specially. They are not
96 sourced and are not guaranteed to be run by /bin/sh regardless of
97 the #! line. This brings Policy in line with the long-standing
98 behavior of the init system in Debian. [9.3]
99 * The start action of an init script must exit successfully and not
100 start the daemon again if it's already running. [9.3.2]
101 * /var/run and /var/lock may be mounted as temporary filesystems, and
102 init scripts must therefore create any necessary subdirectories
104 * /bin/sh scripts may assume that local can take multiple variable
105 arguments and supports assignment. [10.4]
106 * User mailboxes may be mode 600 and owned by the user rather than
107 mode 660, owned by user, and group mail. [11.6]
111 * The base section has been removed. contrib and non-free have been
112 removed from the section list; they are only categories. The base
113 system is now defined by priority. [2.4, 3.7]
114 * If dpkg-source -x doesn't provide the source that will be compiled,
115 a debian/rules patch target is recommended and should do whatever
116 else is necessary. [4.9]
117 * Standardized the format of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Specified permitted
118 characters for tags, required that tags be whitespace-separated,
119 allowed packages to assume non-conflicting tags, and required
120 unknown flags be ignored. [4.9.1, 10.1]
121 * Added parallel=n to the standardized DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS tags,
122 indicating that a package should be built using up to n parallel
123 processes if the package supports it [4.9.1]
124 * Debian packages should not use convenience copies of code from other
125 packages unless the included package is explicitly intended to be
126 used that way. [4.13]
127 * If dpkg-source -x doesn't produce source ready for editing and
128 building with dpkg-buildpackage, packages should include a
129 debian/README.source file explaining how to generate the patched
130 source, add a new modification, and remove an existing
131 modification. This file may also be used to document packaging a
132 new upstream release and any other complexity of the Debian build
134 * The Uploaders field in debian/control may be wrapped. [5.6.3]
135 * An empty Debian revision is equivalent to a Debian revision of 0 in
136 a version number. [5.6.12]
137 * New Homepage field for upstream web sites. [5.6.23]
138 * The Breaks field declares that this package breaks another and
139 prevents installation of the breaking package unless the package
140 named in Breaks is deconfigured first. This field should not be
141 used until the dpkg in Debian stable supports it. [6.5, 6.6, 7]
142 * Clarify which files should go into a shared library package, into a
143 separate package, or into the -dev package. Suggest -tools instead
144 of -runtime for runtime support programs, since that naming is more
145 common in Debian. [8.1, 8.2]
146 * Files in /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly} must be
147 configuration files (upgraded from should). Mention the hourly
149 * Packages providing /etc/X11/Xresources files need not conflict with
150 xbase (<< 3.3.2.3a-2), which is long-obsolete. [11.8.6]
151 * Manual pages in locale-specific directories should use either the
152 legacy encoding for that directory or UTF-8. Country names should
153 not be included in locale-specific manual page directories unless
154 indicating a significant difference in the language. All
155 characters in the manual page source should be representable in the
156 legacy encoding for a locale even if the man page is encoded in
158 * The Apache 2.0 license is now in common-licenses and should be
159 referenced rather than quoted in debian/copyright. [12.5]
160 * Packages in contrib and non-free should state in the copyright file
161 that the package is not part of Debian GNU/Linux and briefly
163 * Underscore (_) is allowed in debconf template names. [debconf]
167 * Package version numbers may contain tildes, which sort before
168 anything, even the end of a part. [5.6.12]
169 * Scripts may assume that /bin/sh supports local (at a basic level)
170 and that its test builtin (if any) supports -a and -o binary
171 logical operators. [10.4]
172 * The substitution variable ${binary:Version} should be used in place
173 of ${Source-Version} for dependencies between packages of the same
175 * Substantial reorganization and renaming of sections in the Debian
176 menu structure. Packages with menu entries should be reviewed to
177 see if the menu section has been renamed or if one of the new
178 sections would be more appropriate. [menu policy]
179 * The Source field in a .changes file may contain a version number
180 in parentheses. [5.6.1]
181 * The acceptable values for the Urgency field are low, medium, high,
182 critical, or emergency. [5.6.17]
183 * The shlibs file now allows an optional type field, indicating the
184 type of package for which the line is valid. The only currently
185 supported type is udeb, used with packages for the Debian
187 * Packages following the Debian Configuration management
188 specification must allow for translation of their messages by using
189 a gettext-based system such as po-debconf. [3.9.1]
190 * GFDL 1.2, GPL 3, and LGPL 3 are now in common-licenses and should
191 be referenced rather than quoted in debian/copyright. [12.5]
195 * Maintainer scripts must not be world writeable (up from a
196 should to a must) [6.1]
200 * Revert the cgi-lib change. [11.5]
204 * It is now possible to create shared libraries without
205 relocatable code (using -fPIC) in certain exceptional cases,
206 provided some procedures are followed, and for creating static
207 libraries with relocatable code (again, using -fPIC).
208 Discussion on debian-devel@lists.debian.org, getting a rough
209 consensus, and documenting it in README.Debian constitute most
210 of the process. [10.2]
211 * Packages should install any relevant files into the directories
212 /usr/include/X11/and /usr/lib/X11/, but if they do so, they
213 must pre-depend on x11-common (>= 1:7.0.0) [11.8.7]
217 * Packages shipping web server CGI files are expected to install
218 them in /usr/lib/cgi-lib/ directories. This location change
219 perhaps should be documented in NEWS [11.5]
220 * Web server packages should include a standard scriptAlias of
221 cgi-lib to /usr/lib/cgi-lib. [11.5]
222 * The version of FHS mandated by policy has been upped to
223 2.3. There should be no changes required for most packages,
224 though new top level directories /media, /srv, etc may be of
226 * All fields, apart from the Uploaders field, in the control file
227 are supposed to be a single logical line, which may be spread
228 over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space is
229 elided). However, any parser for the control file must allow
230 the Uploaders field to be spread over multiple physical lines
231 as well, to prepare for future changes. [ 5.1, 5.6.3 ]
232 * When scripts are installed into a directory in the system
233 PATH, the script name should not include an extension that
234 denotes the scripting language currently used to implement it.
236 * packages that invoke initscripts now must use invoke-rc.d to do
237 so since it also pays attention to run levels and other local
238 constraints. [ 9.3.3.2 ]
239 * We no longer use /usr/X11R6, since we have migrated away to
240 using Xorg paths. This means, for one thing, fonts live in
241 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ now, and /usr/X11R6 is gone.
242 [ 11.8.5.2, 11.8.7, etc]
246 * Recommend doc-base, and not menu, for registering package documentation.
247 * Run time support programs should live in subdirectories of
248 /usr/lib/ or /usr/share, and preferably the shared lib is named
249 the same as the package name (to avoid name collisions). [8.1]
250 * It is recommended that HTTP servers provide an alias /images to
251 allow packages to share image files with the web server [11.5]
255 + Prompting the user should be done using debconf. Non debconf
256 user prompts are now deprecated. [3.10.1]
260 - Restructuring causing shifts in section numbers and bumping of
261 the minor version number:
262 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
263 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
264 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
265 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
266 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
267 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
268 optional based on the current practice and the behavior of the
269 deb-building tool-chain.
270 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
271 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
272 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
273 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
274 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
275 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
276 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
277 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
278 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
279 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
280 sections about changelog files.
281 - Added Games/Simulation and Apps/Education to menu sub-policy
283 - Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. [C.2.2]
284 - shared libraries must be linked against all libraries that they
285 use symbols from in the same way that binaries are. [10.2]
286 - build-depends-indep need not be satisfied during clean
291 - packages providing the x-terminal-emulator virtual package
292 ought to ensure that they interpret the command line exactly
293 like xterm does. [11.8.3]
294 - Window managers compliant with the Window Manager Specification
295 Project may add 40 points for ranking in the alternatives [11.8.4]
299 - The section describing the Description: package field once again has
300 full details of the long description format. [3.4.2]
301 - Clarified that if a package has non-build-essential
302 build-dependencies, it should have them listed in the Build-Depends
303 and related fields (i.e. it's not merely optional). [4.2]
304 - When asked to restart a service that isn't already running,
305 the init script should start the service. [9.3.2]
306 - If the purpose of a package is to provide examples, then the
307 example files can be installed into <tt>/usr/share/doc/package</tt>
308 (rather than <tt>/usr/share/doc/package/examples</tt>). [12.6]
312 - It is no longer necessary to keep a log of changes to the upstream
313 sources in the copyright file. Instead, all such changes should be
314 documented in the changelog file. [12.7]
315 - <tt>Build-Depends</tt>, <tt>Build-Conflicts</tt>,
316 <tt>Build-Depends-Indep</tt>, and
317 <tt>Build-Conflicts-Indep</tt> must also be satisfied when the
318 clean target is called. [7.6]
319 - A new Apps/Science menu section is available [menu policy]
320 - debconf specification cleared up, various changes. [debconf
322 - It is no longer recommended to create symlinks from nonexistent
323 manual pages to undocumented(7). Missing manual pages for programs
324 are still a bug. [12.1]
328 - Packages no longer have to ask permission to call MAKEDEV in
329 postinst, merely notifying the user ought to be enough. [10.6]
330 - cryptographic software may now be included in the main
332 - task packages are no longer permitted; tasks are now created by a
333 special Tasks: field in the control file. [3.9]
334 - window managers that support netwm can now add 20 points when
335 they add themselves as an alternative for
336 /usr/bin/x-window-manager [11.8.4]
337 - The default compilation options have now changed, one should
338 provide debugging symbols in all cases, and optionally step
339 back optimization to -O0, depending on the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS
340 environment variable. [10.1]
341 - Added mention of build-arch, build-indep, etc, in describing
342 the relationships with `Build-Depends', `Build-Conflicts',
343 `Build-Depends-Indep', and `Build-Conflicts-Indep'. May need to
344 review the new rules. [7.6, 4.8]
345 - Changed rules on how, and when, to invoke ldconfig in maintainer
346 scripts. Long rationale. [8]
347 - [Added the last note in 3.5.6 upgrading checklist item regarding
348 build rules, please see below]
352 - Emacs and TeX are no longer mandated by policy to be priority
353 standard packages [2.5]
354 - Programs that access docs need to do so via /usr/share/doc, and
355 not via /usr/doc/ as was the policy previously [11.5]
356 - Putting documentation in /usr/doc versus /usr/share/doc is now
357 a ``serious'' policy violation. [12.3]
358 - For web servers, one should not provide non-local access to the
359 /usr/share/doc hierarchy. If one can't provide access controls for
360 the http://localhost/doc/ directory, then it is preferred that one
361 ask permission to expose that information during the install. [11.5]
362 - There are new rules for build-indep/build-arch targets and
363 there is a new Build-Depend-Indep semantic. [7]
367 - Manpages should not rely on header information to have
368 alternative manpage names available; it should only use
369 symlinks or .so pages to do this [12.1]
370 - [Clarified note in 3.5.3.0 upgrading checklist regarding
371 examples and templates: this refers only to those examples used
372 by scripts; see section 10.7.3 for the whole story]
373 - Included a new section 10.9.1 describing the use of
374 dpkg-statoverride; this does not have the weight of policy
375 - Clarify Standards-Version: you don't need to rebuild your
376 packages just to change the Standards-Version!
377 - Plugins are no longer bound by all the rules of shared
379 - X Windows related things:
380 * Clarification of priority levels of X Window System related
382 * Rules for defining x-terminal-emulator improved [11.8.3]
383 * X Font policy rewritten: you must read this if you provide
384 fonts for the X Window System [11.8.5]
385 * Packages must not ship /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/ [11.8.6]
386 * X-related packages should usually use the regular FHS
387 locations; imake-using packages are exempted from this [11.8.7]
388 * OpenMotif linked binaries have the same rules as
389 OSF/Motif-linked ones [11.8.8]
393 - The system-wide mail directory is now /var/mail, no longer
394 /var/spool/mail. Any packages accessing the mail spool should
395 access it via /var/mail and include a suitable Depends field;
397 - The perl policy is now part of Debian policy proper. Perl
398 programs and modules should follow the current Perl policy
403 - Build-Depends arch syntax has been changed to be less
404 ambiguous. This should not affect any current packages [7.1]
405 - Examples and templates files for use by scripts should now live
406 in /usr/share/<package> or /usr/lib/<package>, with
407 symbolic links from /usr/share/doc/<package>/examples as
412 - X app-defaults directory has moved from
413 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults to /etc/X11/app-defaults [11.8.6]
417 - dpkg-shlibdeps now uses objdump, so shared libraries have to be
418 run through dpkg-shlibdeps as well as executables [8.1]
422 - Font packages for the X Window System must now declare a
423 dependency on xutils (>= 4.0.2) [11.8.5]
427 - Daemon startup scripts in /etc/init.d/ should not contain
428 modifiable parameters; these should be moved to a file in
429 /etc/default/; see [9.3.2] for details
430 - Files in /usr/share/doc must not be referenced by any
431 program. If such files are needed, they must be placed in
432 /usr/share/<package>/, and symbolic links created as required
433 in /usr/share/doc/<package>/ [12.3]
434 - Much of the packaging manual has now been imported into the
439 - A package of priority standard or higher may provide two
440 binaries, one compiled with support for the X Window System,
441 and the other without [11.8.1]
445 - By default executables should not be built with the debugging
446 option -g. Instead, it is recommended to support building the
447 package with debugging information optionally. Details in [10.1]
448 - Policy for packages where the upstream uses HTML changelog
449 files has been expanded. In short, a plain text changelog file
450 should always be generated for the upstream changes [12.8]
451 - Please note that the new release of the X window system (3.2)
452 shall probably need sweeping changes in policy
453 - Policy for packages providing the following X-based features
455 - X server (virtual package xserver) [11.8.2]
456 - X terminal emulator (virtual package x-terminal-emulator) [11.8.3]
457 - X window manager (virtual package x-window-manager, and
458 /usr/bin/x-window-manager alternative, with priority
459 calculation guidelines) [11.8.4]
460 - X fonts (this section has been written from scratch) [12.8.5]
461 - X application defaults [11.8.6]
462 - Policy for packages using the X Window System and FHS issues
463 has been clarified; see [11.8.7]
464 - No package may contain or make hard links to conffiles [11.7.3]
465 - Noted that newer dpkg versions do not require extreme care in
466 always creating the shared lib before the symlink, so the unpack
471 - Correction to semantics of architecture lists in Build-Depends
472 etc. Should not affect many packages [7.1]
476 - /usr/doc/<package> has to be a symlink pointing to
477 /usr/share/doc/<package>, to be maintained by postinst
478 and prerm scripts. Details are in [defunct]
479 - Introduced source dependencies (Build-Depends, etc.) [7.1, 7.6]
480 - /etc/rc.boot has been deprecated in favour of /etc/rcS.d.
481 (Packages should not be touching this directory, but should use
482 update-rc.d instead) [9.3.4]
483 - update-rc.d is now the *only* allowable way of accessing the
484 /etc/rc?.d/[SK]??* links. Any scripts which manipulate them
485 directly must be changed to use update-rc.d instead. (This is
486 because the file-rc package handles this information in an
487 incompatible way.) [9.3.3]
488 - Architecture-specific examples go in /usr/lib/<package>/examples
489 with symlinks from /usr/share/doc/<package>/examples/* or from
490 /usr/share/doc/<package>/examples itself [12.7]
491 - Updated FHS to a 2.1 draft; this reverts /var/state to
493 - Added MIME sub-policy document [9.7; mime-policy]
494 - VISUAL is allowed as a (higher priority) alternative to EDITOR [12.4]
495 - Modified liblockfile description, which affects
496 mailbox-accessing programs. Please see the policy document for
498 - If a package provides a changelog in HTML format, a text-only
499 version should also be included. (Such a version may be prepared
500 using lynx -dump -nolist.) [12.7]
501 - Description of how to handle version numbers based on dates
506 - Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
507 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
508 .la files must go in the run-time library package [10.2]
512 - Debian formally moves from the FSSTND to the FHS. This is a
513 major change, and the implications of this move are probably
515 - Only 3 digits of the Standards version need be included in
516 control files, though all four digits are still permitted. [4.1]
517 - The location of the GPL has changed to
518 /usr/share/common-licenses. This may require changing the
519 copyright files to point to the correct location of the GPL and
520 other major licenses [12.6]
521 - Packages that use libtool to create shared libraries must
522 include the .la files in the -dev packages [10.2]
523 - Use logrotate to rotate log files [10.8]
524 - section 5.8 has been rewritten (Programs for the X Window
526 - There is now an associated menu policy, in a separate document,
527 that carries the full weight of Debian policy [9.6; menu-policy]
528 - Programs which need to modify the files /var/run/utmp,
529 /var/log/wtmp and /var/log/lastlog must be installed setgid utmp [11.3]
532 ** Please note that section numbers below this point may not be up to date **
538 - Rearranged the manual to create a new Section 4, Files
539 + Section 3.3 ("Files") was moved to Section 4. The Sections
540 that were Section 4 and Section 5 were moved down to become
541 Section 5 and Section 6.
542 + What was Section 5.5 ("Log files") is now a subsection of the
543 new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8, placed after
544 "Configuration files", moving the Section 4.8 ("Permissions
545 and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the old
546 Section 5 after 5.5 were moved down to fill in the number
548 - Modified the section about changelog files to accommodate
549 upstream changelogs which were formatted as HTML/ These
550 upstream changelog files should now be accessible as
551 /usr/doc/package/changelog.html.gz
552 + Symlinks are permissible to link the real, or upstream,
553 changelog name to the Debian mandated name.
554 - Clarified that HTML documentation should be present in some
555 package, though not necessarily the main binary package.
556 - Corrected all references to the location of the copyright
557 files. The correct location is /usr/doc/package/copyright
558 - Ratified the architecture specification strings to cater to the
564 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
565 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
566 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
567 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
569 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
570 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
571 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
574 - Updated prefix of chapter 12, Shared Libraries:
575 ldconfig must be called in the postinst script if the package
576 installs shared libraries
577 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue #6, fixes:bug#20515)
581 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
582 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
583 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
585 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
586 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
589 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
590 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
591 file extension as the referenced file
593 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
594 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
596 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
597 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
598 start, stop, restart, force-reload
599 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
602 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
603 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
604 be installed into /etc/cron.d
606 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
607 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
608 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
609 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
612 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
613 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
616 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
617 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
618 reasonable default configuration
620 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
621 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
622 by all news servers and clients
624 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Window System:
625 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
626 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
627 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
628 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
630 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
631 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
634 2.3.0.1, 2.3.0.0 Sep 1997
636 * new section `4.2 Daemons' including rules for
637 /etc/services, /etc/protocols, /etc/rpc, and /etc/inetd.conf
639 * updated section about `Configuration files':
640 packages may not touch other packages' configuration files
642 * MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
646 * added section 4.1 `Architecture specification strings':
649 where <arch> is one of the following:
650 i386, alpha, arm, m68k, powerpc, sparc.
652 * detailed rules for /usr/local
656 * editor/pager policy
662 * don't install shared libraries as executable
664 * app-defaults files may not be conffiles
666 2.1.3.2, 2.1.3.1, 2.1.3.0 Mar 1997
668 * two programs with different functionality must not have the
673 * "Standard for Console Messages"
675 * Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
677 * Libraries should be stripped with "strip --strip-unneeded"
679 2.1.2.2, 2.1.2.1, 2.1.2.0 Nov 1996
681 * Some changes WRT shared libraries
685 * No hard links in source packages
687 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation
689 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped
693 * Upstream changelog must be installed too
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