+debian-policy (3.9.1.0) UNRELEASED; 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
+ * 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)
+ * Add Pre-Depends and Build-Depends-Indep to the relationships not
+ allowed from main to contrib or non-free and mention that such
+ relationships are okay if the non-free package is only an
+ alternative. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #587279)
+
+ -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:34:54 -0700
+
+debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ [ Colin Watson ]
+ * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
+
+ [ Bill Allombert ]
+ * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
+ looking .txt file.
+ 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
+
+ [ 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
+
+debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ [ Bill Allombert ]
+ * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
+ Proposed by Jari Aalto.
+ Closes: #544353
+ * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
+ Proposed by Enrico Zini.
+ Closes: #550192
+
+ [ Manoj Srivastava ]
+ * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
+ pointing this out.
+ * [c74ac74]:
+ Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
+ Wording: Steve Langasek.
+ Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
+ Seconded: Julien Cristau
+ Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
+ Closes: #542865
+ * [7ac3ee6]:
+ virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
+ Wording: Manoj Srivastava
+ Seconded: Russ Allbery
+ Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
+ Closes: #518199
+ * [8fd91a0]
+ README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
+ Wording: Manoj Srivastava
+ Seconded: Russ Allbery
+ Closes: #545548
+ * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
+ policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
+ wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
+ Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
+ * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
+ policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
+ Wording: Manoj Srivastava
+ Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
+ Closes: #556972
+ This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
+ directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
+ * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
+ policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
+ Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
+ Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
+ Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
+ Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
+ must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
+ reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
+ * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
+ policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
+ wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
+ Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
+ Closes: #391836
+ Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
+ - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
+ - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
+ - Correct support of /etc/crontab
+ - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
+ ranges, step values
+ - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
+
+ [ Russ Allbery ]
+ * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
+ Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
+ * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
+ avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
+ (Closes: #552757)
+
+ -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
+
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* Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
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