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- Author : Manoj Srivastava ( srivasta@tiamat.datasync.com )
+ Author : Manoj Srivastava ( srivasta@tiamat.datasync.com )
Created On : Thu Oct 29 20:54:48 1998
Created On Node : tiamat.datasync.com
Last Modified By : Manoj Srivastava
Last Machine Used: glaurung.green-gryphon.com
Update Count : 15
Status : Unknown, Use with caution!
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<h2>The checklist</h2>
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-3.5.0.0 Jan 28
+3.5.2.0 Feb 01
+ Policy Manual:
+ - X app-defaults directory has moved from
+ /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults to /etc/X11/app-defaults.
+
+3.5.1.0 Feb 01
+ Policy Manual:
+ - dpkg-shlibdeps now uses objdump, so shared libraries have to be
+ run through dpkg-shlibdeps as well as executables
+
+3.5.0.0 Jan 01
Policy Manual:
- If your package had fonts for the X Window System, and you
converted BDF to PCF formats, the <tt>bdftopcf</tt> utility has
- moved to the xutils package.
+ moved to the xutils package.
- Font packages for the X Window System must now declare a
- dependency on xutils >= 4.0.2
+ dependency on xutils >= 4.0.2
3.2.1.1 Jan 01
program. If such files are needed, they must be placed in
/usr/share/package-name/, and symbolic links created as required
in /usr/share/doc/package-name/
+ - Much of the packaging manual has now been imported into the
+ policy document
3.2.1.0 Aug 00
- A package of priority standard or higher may provide two
binaries, one compiled with support for the X Window System,
and the other without.
- -
3.2.0.0 Aug 00
Policy Manual:
- By default executables should not be built with the debugging
option -g. Instead, it is recommended to support building the
- package with debugging information optionally. Please look at the
+ package with debugging information optionally. Please look at the
examples using DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in the policy manual.
- Policy for packages where the upstream uses html changelog
files has been expanded. In short, a plain text changelog file
- Policy for packages using the X Window System and FHS issues
has been clarified. Please read the manual for details.
- Policy for packages providing an X application default has been
- clarified.
+ clarified.
- No package may contain or make hard links to conffiles.
Packaging Manual:
- Noted that newer dpkg versions do not require extreme care in
always creating the shared lib before the symlink, so the unpack
- order be correct.
+ order be correct.
3.1.1.0 Nov 99
major change, and the implications of this move are probably
not all known.
- Only 3 digits of the Standards version need be included in
- control files, though all four digits are still permitted.
+ control files, though all four digits are still permitted.
- The location of the GPL has changed to
/usr/share/common-licenses. This may require changing the
copyright files to point to the correct location of the GPL and
include the .la files in the -dev packages.
- Use logrotate to rotate log files
- section 5.8 has been rewritten (Programs for the X Window
- System)
+ System)
- There is now anassociated menu policy, in a separate document,
- that carries the full weight of Debian policy.
+ that carries the full weight of Debian policy.
- The files `/var/run/utmp', `/var/log/wtmp' and
`/var/log/lastlog' must be installed writeable by group
utmp. Programs who need to modify those files must be installed
"Configuration files", moving the Section 4.8 ("Permissions
and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the old
Section 5 after 5.5 were moved down to fill in the number
- gap.
+ gap.
- Modified the section about changelog files to accommodate
upstream changelogs which were formatted as HTML/ These
upstream changelog files should now be accessible as
- /usr/doc/package/changelog.html.gz
+ /usr/doc/package/changelog.html.gz
+ Symlinks are permissible to link the real, or upstream,
changelog name to the Debian mandated name.
- Clarified that HTML documentation should be present in some
- Corrected all references to the location of the copyright
files. The correct location is /usr/doc/package/copyright
- Ratified the architecture specification strings to cater to the
- HURD.
+ HURD.
2.4.1.0 Apr 98
ldconfig must be called in the postinst script if the package
installs shared libraries
(cf., Policy Weekly Issue #6, fixes:bug#20515)
-
+
2.4.0.0 Jan 98
- Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
/etc/services, /etc/protocols, /etc/rpc, and /etc/inetd.conf
* updated section about `Configuration files':
- packages may not touch other packages' configuration files
+ packages may not touch other packages' configuration files
* MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
* added section 4.1 `Architecture specification strings':
use
- <arch>-linux
+ <arch>-linux
where <arch> is one of the following:
i386, alpha, arm, m68k, powerpc, sparc.
2.1.1.0 Sep 96
* No hard links in source packages
-
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* Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation
* Shared libraries must be installed stripped
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