-debian-policy (3.8.5.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+debian-policy (3.9.0.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
[ Colin Watson ]
* Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
Closes: #582495
[ Russ Allbery ]
+ * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
+ Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
+ Closes: #578854
+ * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
+ Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
+ Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
+ Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
+ Closes: #530687
* Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
Closes: #562506
+ * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
+ Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
+ Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
+ Closes: #224509
+ * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
+ Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
+ Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
+ Closes: #569174
+ * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
+ Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
+ Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
+ Closes: #284340
+ * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
+ Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
+ Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
+ Closes: #478295
+ * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
+ Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
+ Closes: #555978
+ * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
+ Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
+ Closes: #347581
+ * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
+ Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
+ Closes: #575639
+ * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
+ Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
+ Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
+ Closes: #560411
* Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
Closes: #579457
+ * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
+ Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
+ Closes: #579461
* Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
* Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
+ * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
+ list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
+ noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
+ * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
+ * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
+ traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
+ README.html. (Closes: #584521)
+ * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
+ * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
+ Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
+ * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
+ configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
+ * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
+ for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
+ description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
+ this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
+ * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
+ "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
+ (Closes: #586163)
-- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Mon, 31 May 2010 20:00:28 +0200