<h2>The checklist</h2>
<pre>
-3.8.3.0 unreleased
+3.8.3.0 Aug 2009
* Add DEB_*_ARCH_CPU and DEB_*_ARCH_OS variables and recommend them
over GNU-style variables for that information. [4.9]
in different versions of the field. [5.6.8]
* The Debian archive software does not support uploading to multiple
distributions with one *.changes file. [5.6.14]
+ * The Binary field may span multiple lines. [5.6.19]
+ * Remove the permission for shared library packages to install
+ libraries in a non-standard location and modify ld.so.conf.
+ Packages should either be installed in a standard library directory
+ or packages using them should be built with RPATH. [10.2]
+ * Clarify installation directories for X programs and remove the
+ requirement to pre-depend on x11-common before installing into
+ /usr/include/X11 and /usr/lib/X11. [11.8.7]
+ * Remove the requirement that all characters in a manual page be
+ representable in the legacy encoding for that language. [12.1]
+ * Localized man pages should either be kept up-to-date with the
+ original version or warn that they're not up-to-date, either with
+ warning text or by showing missing or changed portions in the
+ original language. [12.1]
+ * install-info is now handled via triggers so packages no longer need
+ to invoke it in maintainer scripts. Info documents should now have
+ directory sections and entries in the document. Packages
+ containing info documents should add a dependency to support
+ partial upgrades. [12.2]
* The requirement for Perl modules to have a versioned Depend and
Build-Depend on perl >= 5.6.0-16 has been removed. [perl]