Clarification of the Format field in control files -- patch for #547272.

[debian/debian-policy.git] / upgrading-checklist.sgml

diff --git a/upgrading-checklist.sgml b/upgrading-checklist.sgml
index 03669f9a6be3598760cddc18636710a07c38a930..06349a5be84e4abf58abe1d79fe84c579d7d0d50 100644 (file)
--- a/upgrading-checklist.sgml
+++ b/upgrading-checklist.sgml
@@ -44,6 +44,23 @@ Release Jun 2010.
   <item>The required format for the date in a changelog entry and in the
   Date control field is now precisely specified.
   </item>
+<tag>5.1</tag>
+  <item>A control paragraph must not contain more than one instance of a
+  particular field name.
+  </item>
+<tag>5.4, 5.5, 5.6.24</tag>
+  <item>Document and recommend the <tt>Checksums-Sha1</tt>
+  and <tt>Checksums-Sha256</tt> fields in <file>*.dsc</file>
+  and <file>*.changes</file> files.
+  </item>
+<tag>5.6.2</tag>
+  <item>The syntax of the <tt>Maintainer</tt> field is now must rather
+  than should.
+  </item>
+<tag>5.6.3</tag>
+  <item>The comma separating entries in <tt>Uploaders</tt> is now must
+  rather than should.
+  </item>
 <tag>5.6.8, 7.1, 11.1.1</tag>
   <item>Architecture wildcards may be used in addition to specific
   architectures in <file>debian/control</file> and <file>*.dsc</file>
@@ -57,6 +74,25 @@ Release Jun 2010.
   is no controlling terminal and no reasonable default for a high-priority
   question, but should avoid this if possible.
   </item>
+<tag>7.3, 7.6.1</tag>
+  <item><tt>Breaks</tt> should be used with <tt>Replaces</tt> for moving
+  files between packages.
+  </item>
+<tag>7.4</tag>
+  <item><tt>Breaks</tt> should normally be used instead
+  of <tt>Conflicts</tt> for transient issues and moving files between
+  packages.  New documentation of when each should be used.
+  </item>
+<tag>7.5</tag>
+  <item>Use <tt>Conflicts</tt> with <tt>Provides</tt> if only one provider
+  of a virtual facility can ge installed at a time.
+  </item>
+<tag>8.4</tag>
+  <item>All shared library development files are no longer required to be
+  in the <tt>-dev</tt> package, only be available when the <tt>-dev</tt>
+  package is installed.  This allows the <tt>-dev</tt> package to be split
+  as long as it depends on the additional packages.
+  </item>
 <tag>9.2.2</tag>
   <item>The UID range of user accounts is extended to 1000-59999.
   </item>
@@ -64,6 +100,18 @@ Release Jun 2010.
   <item><file>init.d</file> scripts are a possible exception from the
   normal requirement to use <tt>set -e</tt> in each shell script.
   </item>
+<tag>12.5</tag>
+  <item>The UCB BSD license was removed from the list of licenses that
+  should be referenced from <file>/usr/share/common-licenses/BSD</file>.
+  It should instead be included directly
+  in <file>debian/copyright</file>, although it will still be in
+  common-licenses for the time being.
+  </item>
+<tag>debconf</tag>
+  <item>Add <tt>SETTITLE</tt> (which has been supported for some time).
+  Like <tt>TITLE</tt> but takes a template instead of a string to allow
+  translation.
+  </item>
 <tag>perl</tag>
   <item><package>perl-base</package> now
   provides <package>perlapi-<var>abiname</var></package> instead of a