-debian-policy (3.9.3.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
[ Russ Allbery ]
+ * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
+ DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
+ in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
+ examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
+ Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
+ (Closes: #658209, #648387)
+ * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
+ that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
+ the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
* Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
Closes: #626779
+ * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
+ Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
+ Closes: #593533
+ * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
+ Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
+ Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
+ Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
+ Closes: #609162
+ * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
+ Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
+ Closes: #23712
+ * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
+ Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
+ Closes: #620870, #532120
+ * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
+ Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
+ Closes: #498300
+ * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
+ Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
+ Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
+ Closes: #89038
* Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
"Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
* Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
source package and the manual page extensions are different for
separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
+ * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
+ bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
+ with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
+ * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
+ education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
+ Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
+ * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
+ Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
+ addresses #587279.
+ * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
+ Slavko.
* Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
* Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
* Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
- Michael Dorrington. Closes: #626408
+ Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
+ * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
+ when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
+ to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
* Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
+ * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
* Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
[ Bill Allombert ]
Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
Closes: #644230
+ * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
+ Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
+ Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
+ Closes: #578421
* Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
Closes: #637614
- -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:27:54 +0100
+ -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
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