- <item>Clarify the duties of a maintainer, require that the maintainer
- address accept mail from Debian role accounts and the BTS, and require
- at least one human with their personal email address
- in <tt>Uploaders</tt> if the maintainer is a shared email address.
+ <item>The maintainer address must accept mail from Debian role accounts
+ and the BTS. At least one human must be listed with their personal
+ email address in <tt>Uploaders</tt> if the maintainer is a shared email
+ address. The duties of a maintainer are also clearer.
+ </item>
+<tag>5</tag>
+ <item>All control fields are now classified as simple, folded, or
+ multiline, which governs whether their values must be a single line or
+ may be continued across multiple lines and whether line breaks are
+ significant.
+ </item>
+<tag>5.1</tag>
+ <item>Parsers are allowed to accept paragraph separation lines
+ containing whitespace, but control files should use completely empty
+ lines. Ordering of paragraphs is significant. Field names must be
+ composed of printable ASCII characters except colon and must not begin
+ with #.
+ </item>
+<tag>5.6.25</tag>
+ <item>The <tt>DM-Upload-Allowed</tt> field is now documented.
+ </item>
+<tag>6.5</tag>
+ <item>The system state maintainer scripts can rely upon during each
+ possible invocation is now documented. In several less-common cases,
+ this is stricter than Policy had previously documented. Packages with
+ complex maintainer scripts should be reviewed in light of this new
+ documentation.
+ </item>
+<tag>7.2</tag>
+ <item>The impact on system state when maintainer scripts that are part
+ of a circular dependency are run is now documented. Circular
+ dependencies are now a should not.
+ </item>
+<tag>7.2</tag>
+ <item>The system state when <prgn>postinst</prgn> and <prgn>prerm</prgn>
+ scripts are run is now documented, and the documentation of the special
+ case of dependency state for <prgn>postrm</prgn> scripts has been
+ improved. <prgn>postrm</prgn> scripts are required to gracefully skip
+ actions if their dependencies are not available.