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       <sect>
        <heading>New versions of this document</heading>
+
        <p>
-         The current version of this document is always accessible
-         from the Debian FTP server <ftpsite>ftp.debian.org</ftpsite>
-         as
-         <ftppath>/debian/doc/package-developer/policy.txt.gz</ftppath>
-         (also available from the same directory are several other
-         formats: <file>policy.html.tar.gz</file>, <file>policy.pdf.gz</file>
-         and <file>policy.ps.gz</file>) or from the <url
-         id="http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/" name="Debian
-         Policy Manual"> webpage.</p>
+         This manual is distributed via the Debian package
+         <package>debian-policy</package>.
+       </p>
 
        <p>
-         In addition, this manual is distributed via the Debian package
-         <file>debian-policy</file>.
+         The current version of this document is also available from
+         the Debian web mirrors at
+         <tt><url name="/doc/debian-policy/"
+               id="http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/"></tt>
+         and from the Debian archive mirrors at
+         <tt><url name="/doc/package-developer/policy.txt.gz"
+               id="http://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/policy.txt.gz"></tt>.
+         Also available from the same directory are several other
+         formats: <file>policy.html.tar.gz</file>, <file>policy.pdf.gz</file>
+         and <file>policy.ps.gz</file>.
        </p>
 
        <p>
-         The <tt>debian-policy</tt> package also includes the file
+         The <package>debian-policy</package> package also includes the file
          <file>upgrading-checklist.txt</file> which indicates policy
          changes between versions of this document.
         </p>
              <p>
                In the past, people specified the full version number
                in the Standards-Version field, for example "2.3.0.0".
-               Since minor patch-level changes don"t introduce new
+               Since minor patch-level changes don't introduce new
                policy, it was thought it would be better to relax
                policy and only require the first 3 components to be
                specified, in this example "2.3.0".  All four
@@ -1682,7 +1685,7 @@ Package: libc6
 
       <p>
        The version number format is:
-       &lsqb;<var>epoch</var><tt>:</tt>&rsqb;<var>upstream_version</var>&lsqb;<tt>-</tt><var>debian_revision</var>&rsqb;
+       [<var>epoch</var><tt>:</tt>]<var>upstream_version</var>[<tt>-</tt><var>debian_revision</var>]
       </p>
 
       <p>
@@ -6414,7 +6417,7 @@ ln -fs ../sbin/sendmail debian/tmp/usr/bin/runq
          file (for more information see <manref name="logrotate"
            section="8">):
          <example compact="compact">
-/var/log/foo/* {
+/var/log/foo/*.log {
 rotate 12
 weekly
 compress