<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
<p>
The version number format is:
- [<var>epoch</var><tt>:</tt>]<var>upstream_version</var>[<tt>-</tt><var>debian_revision</var>]
+ [<var>epoch</var><tt>:</tt>]<var>upstream_version</var>[<tt>-</tt><var>debian_revision</var>]
</p>
<p>
file (for more information see <manref name="logrotate"
section="8">):
<example compact="compact">
-/var/log/foo/* {
+/var/log/foo/*.log {
rotate 12
weekly
compress