+debian-policy (3.7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
+ non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
+ and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
+ * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
+ Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
+ * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
+ DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
+ Millan (Closes: #209008).
+ * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
+ Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
+ (Closes: #430649).
+ * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
+ (Closes: #379150).
+ * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
+ (Closes: #431813).
+ * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
+ thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
+ Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
+ * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
+ Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
+ * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
+ used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
+ (Closes: #442070).
+ * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
+ /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
+ * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
+ not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
+ (Closes: #65577).
+ * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
+ Küster (Closes: #403391).
+ * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
+ to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
+ * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
+ Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
+ * Add an md5sums control file.
+ * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
+ * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
+ currently part of policy.
+ * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
+ * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
+
+ --
+
+debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
+ * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
+ to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
+ * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
+ /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
+ operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
+ * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
+ Allombert (Closes: #361418).
+ * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
+ Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
+ thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
+ * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
+ Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
+ * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
+ Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
+ and Marco d'Itri.
+ * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
+ virtual packages.
+ * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
+ thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
+ * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
+ (Closes: #431813).
+ * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
+ * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
+ list?" (Closes: #412634).
+ * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
+ files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
+ * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
+ templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
+ * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
+ specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
+ * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
+ (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
+ Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
+ * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
+ debconf specification.
+ * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
+ * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
+
+ -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
+
+debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
+ Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
+ Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
+ * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
+ (Closes: #375728).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
+ (Closes: #376104).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
+ world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
+ * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
+ s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
+ quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
+ (Closes: #377215).
+ * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
+ /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
+ premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
+ actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
+ * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
+ Jackson (Closes: #379630).
+ * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
+ Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
+ * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
+ case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
+ the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
+ * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
+ prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
+ thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
+ (Closes: #379974).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
+ (Closes: #386178).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
+ exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
+ * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
+ to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
+ thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
+ * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
+ package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
+
+ -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
+
+debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
+ s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
+ like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
+ Polo (Closes: #372497).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
+ should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
+ (Closes: #372522).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
+ thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
+ * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
+ to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
+ Huehner (Closes: #366032).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
+ Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
+ to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
+ (Closes: #372148).
+ * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
+ thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
+ * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
+ thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
+ * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
+ Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
+
+ -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
+
+debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Revert the cgi-lib change.
+ * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
+ Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
+ Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
+ (Closes: #328951).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
+ thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
+
+ -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
+
+debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
+ when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
+ * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
+ to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
+ directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
+ static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
+ doing so. (Closes: #329762).
+ * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
+ Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
+ * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
+ (Closes: #364983).
+ * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
+ Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
+ clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
+ * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
+ Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
+ "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
+ Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
+ * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
+ (Closes: #365323).
+
+ -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
+
+debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
+ Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
+ Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
+ (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
+ * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
+ debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
+ except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
+ may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
+ is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
+ allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
+ * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
+ language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
+ * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
+ Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
+ * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
+ gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
+ interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
+ to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
+ licenses. (Closes: #355263).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
+ to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
+ legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
+ anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
+ have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
+ uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
+ it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
+ current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
+ (Closes: #357613).
+ * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
+ available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
+ * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
+ Hess (Closes: #362247).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
+ mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
+ thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
+ dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
+ dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
+ dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
+ some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
+ dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
+ on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
+ to be on. (Closes: #362975).
+ * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
+ provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
+ (Closes: #341232).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
+ redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
+ (Closes: #349010).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
+ upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
+ thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
+ * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
+ dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
+ * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
+ Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
+ * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
+ relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
+ http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
+
+ -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
+
+debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ [ Manoj ]
+ * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
+ Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
+ thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
+ thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
+ * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
+ Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
+ summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
+ * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
+ Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
+ (Closes: #334913).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
+ Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
+ unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
+ Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
+ to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
+ "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
+ section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
+ ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
+ thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
+ * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
+ Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
+ non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
+ (Closes: #315470).
+
+ -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
+
+debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
+ to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
+ * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
+ virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
+ (Closes: #313626).
+ * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
+ to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
+ virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
+
+ -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
+
+debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ Manoj:
+ * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
+ docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
+ * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
+ Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
+ modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
+ thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
+ over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
+ constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
+ * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
+ (Closes: #260092).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
+ Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
+ section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
+ *
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
+ archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
+ Robinson (Closes: #284967).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
+ calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
+ and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
+ problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
+ (Closes: #286549).
+ * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
+ thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
+ suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
+ essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
+ (Closes: #291026).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
+ history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
+ directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
+ informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
+ to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
+ * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
+ binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
+ (Closes: #146023).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
+ Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
+ * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
+ thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
+ aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
+ * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
+ images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
+ files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
+ when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
+ * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
+ Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
+ as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
+ * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
+ Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
+ spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
+
+ -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
+
+debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ Manoj:
+ * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
+ in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
+ * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
+ * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
+ * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
+ * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
+ incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
+ caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
+ included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
+ closes: Bug#202054
+ * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
+ version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
+ developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
+ packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
+ this section. closes: Bug#248618
+ * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
+ 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
+ * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
+ 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
+ Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
+ * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
+ Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
+ Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
+ * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
+ Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
+ (Closes: #252392).
+ * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
+ Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
+ * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
+ (Closes: #252086).
+ Josip:
+ * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
+ * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
+ footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
+ closes: #50565.
+ * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
+ to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
+ * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
+ * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
+ according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
+ * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
+ closes: #75508.
+ * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
+ source tarballs, closes: #79210.
+ Andi:
+ * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
+ * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
+ * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
+ * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
+ * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
+ Closes: #185943, #237049
+
+ -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
+
+debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ Josip:
+ * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
+ closes: #193748.
+ Manoj:
+ * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
+ hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
+ * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
+ * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
+ --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
+ running. closes: Bug#187250
+ * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
+ the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
+ * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
+ removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
+ * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
+ user closes: Bug#176506
+
+ -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
+
+debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ Josip:
+ * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
+ + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
+ sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
+ In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
+ fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
+ and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
+ is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
+ optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
+ deb-building toolchain.
+ + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
+ chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
+ Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
+ properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
+ + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
+ with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
+ everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
+ Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
+ talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
+ and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
+ sections about changelog files.
+ Manoj:
+ * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
+ * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
+ * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
+ wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
+ number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
+ bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
+ closes: Bug#174982
+ * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
+ resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
+ machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
+ * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
+ mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
+ * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
+ during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
+ * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
+ behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
+ way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
+ * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
+ been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
+ * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
+ consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
+ * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
+ * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
+ changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
+ * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
+ for the restructuring
+
+ -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
+
+debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ Josip:
+ * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
+ closes: #182792.
+ * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
+ confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
+ * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
+ * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
+ * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
+ * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
+ Manoj:
+ * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
+ extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
+ * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
+ Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
+ * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
+ changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
+ since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
+ closes: Bug#184518
+ * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
+ * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
+ footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
+ means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
+
+ -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
+
+debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ Josip:
+ * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
+ the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
+ * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
+ base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
+ * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
+ the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
+ closes: #174048
+ * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
+ Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
+ * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
+ fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
+ closes: #103459
+ * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
+ * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
+ but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
+ the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
+ If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
+ requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
+ please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
+ through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
+ explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
+ offtopic stuff, too.
+ * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
+ script should start it, closes: #60979
+ * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
+ "should", closes: #170019
+ * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
+ This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
+ in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
+ * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
+ that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
+ * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
+ imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
+ * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
+ closes: #183544
+
+ -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
+
+debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ Manoj
+ * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
+ postsint. closes: Bug#120585
+ * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
+ obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
+ * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
+ * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
+ debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
+ debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
+ is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
+ closes: Bug#164035
+ * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
+ * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
+ * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
+ conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
+ effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
+ other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
+ the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
+ * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
+ * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
+ Josip
+ * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
+ file, closes: Bug#65764
+
+ -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
+
+debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
+ * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
+ may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
+ * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
+ * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
+ * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
+ * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
+ symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
+ previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
+ * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
+ * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
+ details. closes: Bug#133030
+ * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
+ * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
+ parts of Bug#161455.
+
+ -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
+
+debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
+ * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
+ * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
+ the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
+ * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
+ * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
+ the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
+ since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
+ not. closes: Bug#139820
+ * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
+ requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
+ * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
+ * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
+ should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
+ * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
+ * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
+ special field in the control file (and these should be added only
+ after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
+ * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
+ closes: Bug#109672
+ * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
+ closes: Bug#146756
+ * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
+ * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
+ maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
+ * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
+ * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
+ * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
+ window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
+ * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
+ disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
+ * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
+ build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
+ * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
+ the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
+ since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
+ * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
+ packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
+ * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
+ * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
+ * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
+ * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
+ closes: Bug#143770
+ * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
+ * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
+ and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
+ * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
+ * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
+ * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
+ * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
+ closes: Bug#150456
+ * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
+ * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
+ this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
+ * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
+ * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
+ * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
+ * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
+ * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
+ * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
+
+ -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
+
+debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
+ FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
+ * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
+ exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
+ * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
+ * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
+ scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
+ configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
+ either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
+ or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
+ does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
+ conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
+ * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
+ * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
+ * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
+ * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
+ * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
+ * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
+ wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
+ there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
+ * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
+ * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
+ * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
+
+ -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
+
+debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
+ medium, high, emergency.
+ * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
+ which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
+ * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
+ closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
+ * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
+ closes: Bug#102199
+
+ * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
+ * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
+ * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
+ closes: Bug#100631
+ * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
+ debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
+ * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
+ informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
+ its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
+ the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
+ * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
+ closes: Bug#105538
+
+ -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
+
debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
version.
* Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
- from policy maintenance duties.
- * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
+ from policy maintenance duties.
+ * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
* More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
- <cts@nikocity.de>
- * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
+ <cts@nikocity.de>
+ * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
closes: Bug#83924
* Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
* Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
* Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
policy. closes: Bug#53496
* Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
- in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
+ in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
closes: Bug#53700
* Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
* [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
- not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
+ not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
* [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
policy. closes: Bug#64437
* [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
* [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
- * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
+ * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
* [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
* [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
* Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
* Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
- * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
- (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
+ * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
+ (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
- * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
+ * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
alternative closes: Bug#53755
* [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
list closes: Bug#53756
- * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
+ * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
* [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
- virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
- * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
- policy closes: Bug#53760
- * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
+ virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
+ * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
+ policy closes: Bug#53760
+ * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
policy closes: Bug#53761
- * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
- that use X closes: Bug#53762
+ * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
+ that use X closes: Bug#53762
* [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
- * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
+ * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
* Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
- * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
+ * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
* Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
* Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
* Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
* Added FHS details to copyright file
* Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
- file.
+ file.
* Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
- not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
+ not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
* A few typos and omissions corrected
* Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
- list.
+ list.
* Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
* Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
.deb packages)
* Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
* [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
- Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
+ Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
closes: Bug#21969
* [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
/usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
footnote. closes: Bug#28747
- * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
+ * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
- * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
+ * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
closes: Bug# 37342
* [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
Window System) closes: Bug#38212
Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
* Updated the upgrading checklist.
- * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
+ * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
- accordingly.
+ accordingly.
What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
- in the number gap.
+ in the number gap.
This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
number. closes: BUG#25911
-
+
* AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
* AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
- main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
+ main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
closes: BUG#7890
-
+
* AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
/usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
-
+
* AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
-
+
* The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
- managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
-
- * Make the package optional, not extra.
-
+ managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
+
+ * Make the package optional, not extra.
+
* Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
- it is, really).
-
+ it is, really).
+
* Re did the control files, making them more robust
-
+
* re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
- by putting in a layer of abstractions.
+ by putting in a layer of abstractions.
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
- Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
+ improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
-
+
- Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
+ fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
-
+
- Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
+ symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
+ Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
package.
-
+
- Updated section 4.9 Games:
+ manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
(cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
-
+
- Removed one example reference to the current standards version
- Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
a recompiled manual uses the same release date
- Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
* New version numbering scheme:
-
+
- The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
scheme.
-
+
- The first three digits of the version number specify the
`Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
- differ between the manuals.
-
+ differ between the manuals.
+
If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
`Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
-
+
* Packaging changes:
-
+
- Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
- Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
-
+
-- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
* Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
changelog file
- * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
+ * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
* Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
* Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
-
+
-- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
the draft official policy (which is not the case)
* Don't use debstd anymore
-
+
-- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
- refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
- changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
- - new section about `Daemons'
- - updated section about `Configuration files'
- - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
+ - new section about `Daemons'
+ - updated section about `Configuration files'
+ - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
- fixed typos and grammatical errors
* Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
- renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
* Paper about libc6 migration:
- - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
+ - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
* SGML source code included in package
* don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
-
+
-- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
* Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
- - completely reworked structure
+ - completely reworked structure
- moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
- releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
+ releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
- moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
- - removed all those ugly footnotes
- - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
- - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
- - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
- - rewrote abstract and section introductions
- - mention "orphaned packages"
+ - removed all those ugly footnotes
+ - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
+ - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
+ - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
+ - rewrote abstract and section introductions
+ - mention "orphaned packages"
- maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
- distributions' policy
- - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
- - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
- - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
- - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
- - added section about arch spec strings
- - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
- - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
- - added section about "menus"
+ distributions' policy
+ - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
+ - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
+ - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
+ - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
+ - added section about arch spec strings
+ - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
+ - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
+ - added section about "menus"
- removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
- the new documentation policy soon
- - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
+ the new documentation policy soon
+ - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
- removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
- #11008)
- - added section about editors and pagers
- - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
- - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
- - added section about device files
- - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
- - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
+ #11008)
+ - added section about editors and pagers
+ - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
+ - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
+ - added section about device files
+ - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
+ - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
- lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
etc.)
* Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
- Added new section about obsolete names
* Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
* Fixed package's description
-
+
-- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
- * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
+ * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
Programmer's manual
* Corrected the contact email addresses again.
* Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
* Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
a package into. (Guy Maor)
- * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
- Programmer 6.1.
+ * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
+ Programmer 6.1.
-- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
-
+
* Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
- Guy Maor and others
+ Guy Maor and others
* correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
- * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
+ * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
description of deb file format.
- * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
- * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
+ * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
+ * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
shared libraries.
* Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
(Bug #2481)
* Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
* Added section headings for copyright criteria
* Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
- * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
+ * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
static libraries. (Bug #5299)
- * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
+ * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
packages in section on Procedure
- * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
+ * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
a package maintainer
* A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
* Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
* Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
on various shlib files
* Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
- * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
+ * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
-- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
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