1 Policy checklist for upgrading your packages
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4 Author: Bill Allombert, Josip Rodin, Julian Gilbey, Russ Allbery, and Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
5 Date: 2009-11-12 17:12:18 PST
11 The checklist below has been created to simplify the upgrading process
12 of old packages. Note that this list is not "official"; it simply
13 gives an indication of what has changed and whether you are likely to
14 need to make changes to your package in light of this. If you have
15 doubts about a certain topic, if you need more details, or if you
16 think some other package does not comply with policy, please refer to
17 the Policy Manual itself. All of the changes from version 3.0.0
18 onwards indicate which section of the Policy Manual discusses the
19 issue: [3.4] means section 3.4. The section numbering changed when
20 the packaging manual was incorporated into policy; the section numbers
21 used below refer to the current version.
23 Here is how the check list works: Check which policy version your
24 package was checked against last (indicated in the "Standards-Version"
25 field of the source package). Then move upwards until the top and
26 check which of the items on the list might concern your package. Note
27 which sections of policy discuss this, and then check out the Policy
28 Manual for details. If you are upgrading from Policy version < 2.5.0,
29 it may be easier to check through the whole of policy instead of
30 picking your way through this list.
40 + *10.6* : Explicitly state that packages may not contain named pipes and
41 should instead create them in postinst and remove them in prerm or postrm.
48 + *4.9* : Add DEB\_*\_ARCH\_CPU and DEB\_*\_ARCH\_OS variables and
49 recommend them over GNU-style variables for that information.
50 + *5.6.8*: Source package Architecture fields may contain /all/ in
51 combination with other architectures. Clarify when /all/ and /any/
52 may be used in different versions of the field.
53 + *5.6.14* : The Debian archive software does not support uploading
54 to multiple distributions with one \*.changes file.
55 + *5.6.19* : The Binary field may span multiple lines.
56 + *10.2* : Remove the permission for shared library packages to
57 install libraries in a non-standard location and modify ld.so.conf.
58 Packages should either be installed in a standard library directory
59 or packages using them should be built with RPATH.
60 + *11.8.7* : Clarify installation directories for X programs and
61 remove the requirement to pre-depend on x11-common before installing
62 into /usr/include/X11 and /usr/lib/X11.
63 + *12.1* : Remove the requirement that all characters in a manual
64 page be representable in the legacy encoding for that language.
65 + *12.1* : Localized man pages should either be kept up-to-date with
66 the original version or warn that they're not up-to-date, either
67 with warning text or by showing missing or changed portions in the
69 + *12.2* : install-info is now handled via triggers so packages no
70 longer need to invoke it in maintainer scripts. Info documents
71 should now have directory sections and entries in the document.
72 Packages containing info documents should add a dependency to
73 support partial upgrades.
74 + *perl* : The requirement for Perl modules to have a versioned
75 Depend and Build-Depend on perl >= 5.6.0-16 has been removed.
82 + *2.4*: The list of archive sections has been significantly expanded. See
83 [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/03/msg00010.html]
84 for the list of new sections and rules for how to categorize
86 + *3.9.1*: All packages must use debconf or equivalent for user prompting,
87 though essential packages or their dependencies may also fall
88 back on other methods.
89 + *5.6.1*: The requirements for source package names are now explicitly
91 + *9.1*: Legacy XFree86 servers no longer get a special exception from the
92 FHS permitting /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.
93 + *9.1.3*: Removed obsolete dependency requirements for packages that use
95 + *11.8.5*: Speedo fonts are now deprecated. The X backend was disabled
97 + *12.5*: The GNU Free Documentation License version 1.3 is included in
98 common-licenses and should be referenced from there.
105 + *3.8*: Care should be taken when adding functionality to essential and
106 such additions create an obligation to support that functionality
107 in essential forever unless significant work is done.
108 + *4.4*: Changelog files must be encoded in UTF-8.
109 + *4.4*: Tighten some format requirements for changelog files from a should
111 + *4.4.1*: Remove alternative changelog formats. Debian only supports one
112 changelog format for the Debian Archive.
113 + *4.9.1*: New nocheck option for DEB\_BUILD\_OPTIONS indicating any build-time
114 test suite provided by the package should not be run.
115 + *5.1*: All control files must be encoded in UTF-8.
116 + *5.2*: debian/control allows comment lines starting with # with no
117 preceding whitespace.
118 + *9.3*: Init scripts ending in .sh are not handled specially. They are not
119 sourced and are not guaranteed to be run by /bin/sh regardless of
120 the #! line. This brings Policy in line with the long-standing
121 behavior of the init system in Debian.
122 + *9.3.2*: The start action of an init script must exit successfully and not
123 start the daemon again if it's already running.
124 + *9.3.2*: /var/run and /var/lock may be mounted as temporary filesystems, and
125 init scripts must therefore create any necessary subdirectories
127 + *10.4*: /bin/sh scripts may assume that local can take multiple variable
128 arguments and supports assignment.
129 + *11.6*: User mailboxes may be mode 600 and owned by the user rather than
130 mode 660, owned by user, and group mail.
137 + *2.4, 3.7*: The base section has been removed. contrib and non-free have been
138 removed from the section list; they are only categories. The base
139 system is now defined by priority.
140 + *4.9*: If dpkg-source -x doesn't provide the source that will be compiled,
141 a debian/rules patch target is recommended and should do whatever
143 + *4.9.1, 10.1*: Standardized the format of DEB\_BUILD\_OPTIONS. Specified permitted
144 characters for tags, required that tags be whitespace-separated,
145 allowed packages to assume non-conflicting tags, and required
146 unknown flags be ignored.
147 + *4.9.1*: Added parallel=n to the standardized DEB\_BUILD\_OPTIONS tags,
148 indicating that a package should be built using up to n parallel
149 processes if the package supports it
150 + *4.13*: Debian packages should not use convenience copies of code from other
151 packages unless the included package is explicitly intended to be
153 + *4.14*: If dpkg-source -x doesn't produce source ready for editing and
154 building with dpkg-buildpackage, packages should include a
155 debian/README.source file explaining how to generate the patched
156 source, add a new modification, and remove an existing
157 modification. This file may also be used to document packaging a
158 new upstream release and any other complexity of the Debian build
160 + *5.6.3*: The Uploaders field in debian/control may be wrapped.
161 + *5.6.12*: An empty Debian revision is equivalent to a Debian revision of 0 in
163 + *5.6.23*: New Homepage field for upstream web sites.
164 + *6.5, 6.6, 7*: The Breaks field declares that this package breaks another and
165 prevents installation of the breaking package unless the package
166 named in Breaks is deconfigured first. This field should not be
167 used until the dpkg in Debian stable supports it.
168 + *8.1, 8.2*: Clarify which files should go into a shared library package, into a
169 separate package, or into the -dev package. Suggest -tools instead
170 of -runtime for runtime support programs, since that naming is more
172 + *9.5*: Files in /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly} must be
173 configuration files (upgraded from should). Mention the hourly
175 + *11.8.6*: Packages providing /etc/X11/Xresources files need not conflict with
176 xbase (<< 3.3.2.3a-2), which is long-obsolete.
177 + *12.1*: Manual pages in locale-specific directories should use either the
178 legacy encoding for that directory or UTF-8. Country names should
179 not be included in locale-specific manual page directories unless
180 indicating a significant difference in the language. All
181 characters in the manual page source should be representable in the
182 legacy encoding for a locale even if the man page is encoded in
184 + *12.5*: The Apache 2.0 license is now in common-licenses and should be
185 referenced rather than quoted in debian/copyright.
186 + *12.5*: Packages in contrib and non-free should state in the copyright file
187 that the package is not part of Debian GNU/Linux and briefly
189 + *debconf*: Underscore (_) is allowed in debconf template names.
196 + *5.6.12*: Package version numbers may contain tildes, which sort before
197 anything, even the end of a part.
198 + *10.4*: Scripts may assume that /bin/sh supports local (at a basic level)
199 and that its test builtin (if any) supports -a and -o binary
201 + *8.5*: The substitution variable ${binary:Version} should be used in place
202 of ${Source-Version} for dependencies between packages of the same
204 + *menu policy*: Substantial reorganization and renaming of sections in the Debian
205 menu structure. Packages with menu entries should be reviewed to
206 see if the menu section has been renamed or if one of the new
207 sections would be more appropriate.
208 + *5.6.1*: The Source field in a .changes file may contain a version number
210 + *5.6.17*: The acceptable values for the Urgency field are low, medium, high,
211 critical, or emergency.
212 + *8.6*: The shlibs file now allows an optional type field, indicating the
213 type of package for which the line is valid. The only currently
214 supported type is udeb, used with packages for the Debian
216 + *3.9.1*: Packages following the Debian Configuration management
217 specification must allow for translation of their messages by using
218 a gettext-based system such as po-debconf.
219 + *12.5*: GFDL 1.2, GPL 3, and LGPL 3 are now in common-licenses and should
220 be referenced rather than quoted in debian/copyright.
227 + *6.1*: Maintainer scripts must not be world writeable (up from a
235 + *11.5*: Revert the cgi-lib change.
242 + *10.2*: It is now possible to create shared libraries without
243 relocatable code (using -fPIC) in certain exceptional cases,
244 provided some procedures are followed, and for creating static
245 libraries with relocatable code (again, using -fPIC).
246 Discussion on debian-devel@lists.debian.org, getting a rough
247 consensus, and documenting it in README.Debian constitute most
249 + *11.8.7*: Packages should install any relevant files into the directories
250 /usr/include/X11/and /usr/lib/X11/, but if they do so, they
251 must pre-depend on x11-common (>= 1:7.0.0)
258 + *11.5*: Packages shipping web server CGI files are expected to install
259 them in /usr/lib/cgi-lib/ directories. This location change
260 perhaps should be documented in NEWS
261 + *11.5*: Web server packages should include a standard scriptAlias of
262 cgi-lib to /usr/lib/cgi-lib.
263 + *9.1.1*: The version of FHS mandated by policy has been upped to
264 2.3. There should be no changes required for most packages,
265 though new top level directories /media, /srv, etc may be of
267 + *5.1, 5.6.3*: All fields, apart from the Uploaders field, in the control file
268 are supposed to be a single logical line, which may be spread
269 over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space is
270 elided). However, any parser for the control file must allow
271 the Uploaders field to be spread over multiple physical lines
272 as well, to prepare for future changes.
273 + *10.4*: When scripts are installed into a directory in the system
274 PATH, the script name should not include an extension that
275 denotes the scripting language currently used to implement it.
277 + *9.3.3.2*: packages that invoke initscripts now must use invoke-rc.d to do
278 so since it also pays attention to run levels and other local
280 + *11.8.5.2, 11.8.7, etc*: We no longer use /usr/X11R6, since we have
281 migrated away to using Xorg paths. This means, for one thing, fonts
282 live in /usr/share/fonts/X11/ now, and /usr/X11R6 is gone.
290 + Recommend. doc-base, and not menu, for registering package documentation.
291 + *8.1*: Run time support programs should live in subdirectories of
292 /usr/lib/ or /usr/share, and preferably the shared lib is named
293 the same as the package name (to avoid name collisions).
294 + *11.5*: It is recommended that HTTP servers provide an alias /images to
295 allow packages to share image files with the web server
302 + *3.10.1*: Prompting the user should be done using debconf. Non debconf
303 user prompts are now deprecated.
310 + Restructuring causing shifts in section numbers and bumping of
311 the minor version number:
312 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
313 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
314 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
315 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
316 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
317 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
318 optional based on the current practice and the behavior of the
319 deb-building tool-chain.
320 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
321 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
322 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
323 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
324 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
325 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
326 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
327 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
328 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
329 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
330 sections about changelog files.
331 + *menu policy*: Added Games/Simulation and Apps/Education to menu
333 + *C.2.2*: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded.
334 + *10.2*: shared libraries must be linked against all libraries that they
335 use symbols from in the same way that binaries are.
336 + *7.6*: build-depends-indep need not be satisfied during clean
344 + *11.8.3*: packages providing the x-terminal-emulator virtual package
345 ought to ensure that they interpret the command line exactly
347 + *11.8.4*: Window managers compliant with the Window Manager Specification
348 Project may add 40 points for ranking in the alternatives
355 + *3.4.2*: The section describing the Description: package field once again has
356 full details of the long description format.
357 + *4.2*: Clarified that if a package has non-build-essential
358 build-dependencies, it should have them listed in the Build-Depends
359 and related fields (i.e. it's not merely optional).
360 + *9.3.2*: When asked to restart a service that isn't already running,
361 the init script should start the service.
362 + *12.6*: If the purpose of a package is to provide examples, then the
363 example files can be installed into `/usr/share/doc/package' (rather
364 than `/usr/share/doc/package/examples').
371 + *12.7*: It is no longer necessary to keep a log of changes to the upstream
372 sources in the copyright file. Instead, all such changes should be
373 documented in the changelog file.
374 + *7.6*: `Build-Depends', `Build-Conflicts', `Build-Depends-Indep',
375 and `Build-Conflicts-Indep' must also be satisfied when the clean
377 + *menu policy*: A new Apps/Science menu section is available
378 + *debconf policy*: debconf specification cleared up, various changes.
379 + *12.1*: It is no longer recommended to create symlinks from nonexistent
380 manual pages to undocumented(7). Missing manual pages for programs
388 + Packages no longer have to ask permission to call MAKEDEV in
389 postinst, merely notifying the user ought to be enough.
390 + *2.2.4*: cryptographic software may now be included in the main
392 + *3.9*: task packages are no longer permitted; tasks are now created by a
393 special Tasks: field in the control file.
394 + *11.8.4*: window managers that support netwm can now add 20 points when
395 they add themselves as an alternative for
396 /usr/bin/x-window-manager
397 + *10.1*: The default compilation options have now changed, one should
398 provide debugging symbols in all cases, and optionally step
399 back optimization to -O0, depending on the DEB\_BUILD\_OPTIONS
400 environment variable.
401 + *7.6, 4.8*: Added mention of build-arch, build-indep, etc, in describing
402 the relationships with `Build-Depends', `Build-Conflicts',
403 `Build-Depends-Indep', and `Build-Conflicts-Indep'. May need to
404 review the new rules.
405 + *8*: Changed rules on how, and when, to invoke ldconfig in maintainer
406 scripts. Long rationale.
408 *Added the last note in 3.5.6 upgrading checklist item regarding build rules, please see below*
415 + *2.5*: Emacs and TeX are no longer mandated by policy to be priority
417 + *11.5*: Programs that access docs need to do so via /usr/share/doc, and
418 not via /usr/doc/ as was the policy previously
419 + *12.3*: Putting documentation in /usr/doc versus /usr/share/doc is now
420 a ``serious'' policy violation.
421 + *11.5*: For web servers, one should not provide non-local access to the
422 /usr/share/doc hierarchy. If one can't provide access controls for
423 the [http://localhost/doc/] directory, then it is preferred that one
424 ask permission to expose that information during the install.
425 + *7*: There are new rules for build-indep/build-arch targets and
426 there is a new Build-Depend-Indep semantic.
433 + *12.1*: Manpages should not rely on header information to have
434 alternative manpage names available; it should only use
435 symlinks or .so pages to do this
436 + *Clarified note in 3.5.3.0 upgrading checklist regarding
437 examples and templates: this refers only to those examples used
438 by scripts; see section 10.7.3 for the whole story*
439 + Included a new section 10.9.1 describing the use of
440 dpkg-statoverride; this does not have the weight of policy
441 + Clarify Standards-Version: you don't need to rebuild your
442 packages just to change the Standards-Version!
443 + *10.2*: Plugins are no longer bound by all the rules of shared
445 + X Windows related things:
446 * *11.8.1*: Clarification of priority levels of X Window System related
448 * *11.8.3*: Rules for defining x-terminal-emulator improved
449 * *11.8.5*: X Font policy rewritten: you must read this if you provide
450 fonts for the X Window System
451 * *11.8.6*: Packages must not ship /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/
452 * *11.8.7*: X-related packages should usually use the regular FHS
453 locations; imake-using packages are exempted from this
454 * *11.8.8*: OpenMotif linked binaries have the same rules as
455 OSF/Motif-linked ones
462 + *11.6*: The system-wide mail directory is now /var/mail, no longer
463 /var/spool/mail. Any packages accessing the mail spool should
464 access it via /var/mail and include a suitable Depends field;
466 + *11.9; perl-policy*: The perl policy is now part of Debian policy
467 proper. Perl programs and modules should follow the current Perl
476 + *7.1*: Build-Depends arch syntax has been changed to be less
477 ambiguous. This should not affect any current packages
478 + *10.7.3*: Examples and templates files for use by scripts should now live
479 in /usr/share/<package> or /usr/lib/<package>, with
480 symbolic links from /usr/share/doc/<package>/examples as
488 + *11.8.6*: X app-defaults directory has moved from
489 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults to /etc/X11/app-defaults
496 + *8.1*: dpkg-shlibdeps now uses objdump, so shared libraries have to be
497 run through dpkg-shlibdeps as well as executables
504 + *11.8.5*: Font packages for the X Window System must now declare a
505 dependency on xutils (>= 4.0.2)
512 + Daemon startup scripts in /etc/init.d/ should not contain
513 modifiable parameters; these should be moved to a file in
514 /etc/default/; see *9.3.2] for details
515 + *12.3*: Files in /usr/share/doc must not be referenced by any
516 program. If such files are needed, they must be placed in
517 /usr/share/<package>/, and symbolic links created as required
518 in /usr/share/doc/<package>/
519 + Much of the packaging manual has now been imported into the
527 + *11.8.1*: A package of priority standard or higher may provide two
528 binaries, one compiled with support for the X Window System,
529 and the other without
536 + *10.1*: By default executables should not be built with the debugging
537 option -g. Instead, it is recommended to support building the
538 package with debugging information optionally. Details in
539 + *12.8*: Policy for packages where the upstream uses HTML changelog
540 files has been expanded. In short, a plain text changelog file
541 should always be generated for the upstream changes
542 + Please note that the new release of the X window system (3.2)
543 shall probably need sweeping changes in policy
544 + Policy for packages providing the following X-based features
546 - *11.8.2*: X server (virtual package xserver)
547 - *11.8.3*: X terminal emulator (virtual package x-terminal-emulator)
548 - *11.8.4*: X window manager (virtual package x-window-manager, and
549 /usr/bin/x-window-manager alternative, with priority
550 calculation guidelines)
551 - *12.8.5*: X fonts (this section has been written from scratch)
552 - *11.8.6*: X application defaults
553 + *11.8.7*: Policy for packages using the X Window System and FHS issues
554 has been clarified; see
555 + *11.7.3*: No package may contain or make hard links to conffiles
556 + *8*: Noted that newer dpkg versions do not require extreme care in
557 always creating the shared lib before the symlink, so the unpack
565 + *7.1*: Correction to semantics of architecture lists in Build-Depends
566 etc. Should not affect many packages
573 + /usr/doc/<package> has to be a symlink pointing to
574 /usr/share/doc/<package>, to be maintained by postinst
575 and prerm scripts. Details are in *defunct*
576 + *7.1, 7.6*: Introduced source dependencies (Build-Depends, etc.)
577 + *9.3.4*: /etc/rc.boot has been deprecated in favour of /etc/rcS.d.
578 (Packages should not be touching this directory, but should use
580 + *9.3.3*: update-rc.d is now the *only* allowable way of accessing the
581 /etc/rc?.d/*SK]??* links. Any scripts which manipulate them
582 directly must be changed to use update-rc.d instead. (This is
583 because the file-rc package handles this information in an
585 + *12.7*: Architecture-specific examples go in /usr/lib/<package>/examples
586 with symlinks from /usr/share/doc/<package>/examples/* or from
587 /usr/share/doc/<package>/examples itself
588 + *9.1.1*: Updated FHS to a 2.1 draft; this reverts /var/state to
590 + *9.7; mime-policy*: Added MIME sub-policy document
591 + *12.4*: VISUAL is allowed as a (higher priority) alternative to EDITOR
592 + *11.6*: Modified liblockfile description, which affects
593 mailbox-accessing programs. Please see the policy document for
595 + *12.7*: If a package provides a changelog in HTML format, a text-only
596 version should also be included. (Such a version may be prepared
597 using lynx -dump -nolist.)
598 + *3.2.1*: Description of how to handle version numbers based on dates
606 + *10.2*: Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for
607 the packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the .la
608 files must go in the run-time library package
615 + *9.1*: Debian formally moves from the FSSTND to the FHS. This is a
616 major change, and the implications of this move are probably
618 + *4.1*: Only 3 digits of the Standards version need be included in
619 control files, though all four digits are still permitted.
620 + *12.6*: The location of the GPL has changed to
621 /usr/share/common-licenses. This may require changing the
622 copyright files to point to the correct location of the GPL and
624 + *10.2*: Packages that use libtool to create shared libraries must
625 include the .la files in the -dev packages
626 + *10.8*: Use logrotate to rotate log files
627 + *now 11.8*: section 5.8 has been rewritten (Programs for the X Window
629 + *9.6; menu-policy*: There is now an associated menu policy, in a separate document,
630 that carries the full weight of Debian policy
631 + *11.3*: Programs which need to modify the files /var/run/utmp,
632 /var/log/wtmp and /var/log/lastlog must be installed setgid utmp
635 *Please note that section numbers below this point may not be up to date*
644 + Rearranged the manual to create a new Section 4, Files
645 + Section 3.3 ("Files") was moved to Section 4. The Sections
646 that were Section 4 and Section 5 were moved down to become
647 Section 5 and Section 6.
648 + What was Section 5.5 ("Log files") is now a subsection of the
649 new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8, placed after
650 "Configuration files", moving the Section 4.8 ("Permissions
651 and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the old
652 Section 5 after 5.5 were moved down to fill in the number
654 + Modified the section about changelog files to accommodate
655 upstream changelogs which were formatted as HTML/ These
656 upstream changelog files should now be accessible as
657 /usr/doc/package/changelog.html.gz
658 + Symlinks are permissible to link the real, or upstream,
659 changelog name to the Debian mandated name.
660 + Clarified that HTML documentation should be present in some
661 package, though not necessarily the main binary package.
662 + Corrected all references to the location of the copyright
663 files. The correct location is /usr/doc/package/copyright
664 + Ratified the architecture specification strings to cater to the
673 + Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
674 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
675 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
676 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
678 + Updated section 4.9 Games:
679 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
680 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
683 + Updated prefix of chapter 12, Shared Libraries:
684 ldconfig must be called in the postinst script if the package
685 installs shared libraries
686 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue #6, fixes:bug#20515)
694 + Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
695 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
696 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
698 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
699 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
702 + Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
703 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
704 file extension as the referenced file
706 + Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
707 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
709 + Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts in /etc/init.d:
710 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
711 start, stop, restart, force-reload
712 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
715 + Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
716 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
717 be installed into /etc/cron.d
719 + Updated section 3.7 Menus:
720 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
721 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
722 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
725 + New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
726 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
729 + New section 3.9 Environment variables:
730 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
731 reasonable default configuration
733 + New section 4.6 News system configuration:
734 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
735 by all news servers and clients
737 + Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Window System:
738 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
739 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
740 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
741 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
743 + Updated section 4.9 Games:
744 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
752 + new section `4.2 Daemons' including rules for
753 /etc/services, /etc/protocols, /etc/rpc, and /etc/inetd.conf
755 + updated section about `Configuration files':
756 packages may not touch other packages' configuration files
758 + MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
765 + added section 4.1 `Architecture specification strings':
768 where <arch> is one of the following:
769 i386, alpha, arm, m68k, powerpc, sparc.
771 + detailed rules for /usr/local
775 + editor/pager policy
781 + don't install shared libraries as executable
783 + app-defaults files may not be conffiles
785 2.1.3.2, 2.1.3.1, 2.1.3.0
786 --------------------------
790 + two programs with different functionality must not have the
795 + "Standard for Console Messages"
797 + Libraries should be compiled with `-D\_REENTRANT'
799 + Libraries should be stripped with "strip --strip-unneeded"
801 2.1.2.2, 2.1.2.1, 2.1.2.0
802 --------------------------
806 + Some changes WRT shared libraries
813 + No hard links in source packages
815 + Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation
817 + Shared libraries must be installed stripped
824 + Upstream changelog must be installed too