-debian-policy (3.8.4.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+debian-policy (3.9.2.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+ * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
+ Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
+ Closes: #459868, #581011
+ * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
+ Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
+ Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
+ Closes: #594658
+ * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
+ Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
+ Closes: #488214
+ * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
+ architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
+ machine. (Closes: #591857)
+ * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
+ description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
+ * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
+ debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
+ the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
+ paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
+ as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
+ * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
+ to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
+ multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
+ (Closes: #597074)
+ * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
+ Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
+ from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
+ * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
+ * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
+ -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
+ packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
+ than the version in oldstable.
+ * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
+ from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
+ files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
+ list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
+
+ -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:47:47 -0700
+
+debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
+ Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
+ Closes: #436105
+ * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
+ Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
+ Closes: #561413
+ * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
+ Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
+ Closes: #218897
+ * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
+ Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
+ * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
+ Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
+ Closes: #509932
+ * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
+ Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
+ Closes: #400322
+ * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
+ Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
+ Closes: #402721
+ * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
+ Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
+ Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
+ Closes: #475101
+ * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
+ Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
+ Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
+ Closes: #104373
+ * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
+ Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
+ Closes: #186102
+ * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
+ Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
+ Closes: #184064
+ * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
+ Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
+ Closes: #509933
+ * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
+ Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
+ Closes: #589609
+ * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
+ Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
+ Closes: #232448
+ * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
+ Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
+ Closes: #445203
+ * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
+ Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
+ Closes: #477240
+ * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
+ Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
+ Closes: #555977
+ * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
+ package.
+ * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
+ provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
+ * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
+ switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
+ mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
+ * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
+ Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
+ that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
+ references to fields in control files to use "control field"
+ uniformly.
+ * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
+ an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
+ maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
+ * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
+ * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
+ * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
+
+ -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
+
+debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
[ Colin Watson ]
* Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
Closes: #567845
* Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
+ * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
+ and distribution license' (three times).
+ Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
+ Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
+ Closes: #566220
+ * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
+ ranges.
+ Proposed by Santiago Vila
+ Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
+ Closes: #582495
- -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Fri, 21 May 2010 21:02:34 +0200
+ [ 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
+ * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
+ Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
+ Closes: #547272
+ * 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)
+ * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
+ is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
+ dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
+ was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
+ * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
+ new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
+ * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
+ don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
+ * 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)
+ * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
+
+ -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
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