<chapt> The checklist
+<sect id="3.9.6.0"> Version 3.9.6.0
+<p>
+
+Released xxx, 2014.
+
+</p><p><taglist>
+<tag>9.1</tag>
+ <item> The FHS is relaxed to allow a subdirectory of <file>/usr/lib</file>
+ to hold a mixture of architecture-independent and architecture-dependent
+ files, though directories entirely composed of architecture-independent files
+ should be located in <file>/usr/share</file>.
+ </item>
+<tag>9.1</tag>
+ <item>The FHS requirement for <file>/usr/local/lib64</file> to exist
+ if <file>/lib64</file> or <file>/usr/lib64</file> exists is removed.
+ </item>
+<tag>9.1</tag>
+ <item> An FHS exception has been granted for multiarch include files,
+ permitting header files to instead be installed to
+ <file>/usr/include/triplet</file>.
+ </item>
+<tag>10.1</tag>
+ <item> Binaries must not be statically linked with the GNU C library,
+ see policy for exceptions.
+ </item>
+<tag>perl</tag>
+ <item> Perl packages should use the <tt>%Config</tt> hash to locate module
+ paths instead of hardcoding paths in <tt>@INC</tt>.
+ </item>
+<tag>perl</tag>
+ <item> Perl binary modules and any modules installed into
+ <tt>$Config{vendorarch}</tt> must depend on the relevant
+ <package>perlapi-*</package> package.
+ </item> </taglist></p>
+<sect id="3.9.5.0"> Version 3.9.5.0
+<p>
+
+Released October, 2013.
+
+</p><p><taglist>
+<tag>5.1</tag>
+ <item>Control data fields must not start with the hyphen character
+ (<tt>-</tt>), to avoid potential confusions when parsing clearsigned control
+ data files that were not properly unescaped.
+ </item>
+<tag>5.4, 5.6.24</tag>
+ <item><tt>Checksums-Sha1</tt> and <tt>Checksums-Sha256</tt> are now
+ mandatory in <file>.dsc</file> files.
+ </item>
+<tag>5.6.25, 5.8.1</tag>
+ <item>The <tt>DM-Upload-Allowed</tt> field is obsolete. Permissions
+ are now granted via <em>dak-commands</em> files.
+<tag>5.6.27</tag>
+ <item>New section documenting the <tt>Package-List</tt> field in Debian
+ source control files.
+ </item>
+<tag>5.6.28</tag>
+ <item>New section documenting the <tt>Package-Type</tt> field in source
+ package control files.
+ </item>
+<tag>5.6.29</tag>
+ <item>New section documenting the <tt>Dgit</tt> field in Debian
+ source control files.
+ </item>
+<tag>9.1.1.8</tag>
+ <item>The exception to the FHS for the <file>/selinux</file> was removed.
+ </item>
+<tag>10.7.3</tag>
+ <item>Packages should remove all obsolete configuration files without
+ local changes during upgrades. The <prgn>dpkg-maintscript-helper</prgn>
+ tool, available from the <package>dpkg</package> package since
+ <em>Wheezy</em>, can help with this.
+ </item>
+<tag>10.10</tag>
+ <item>The name of the files and directories installed by binary packages
+ must be encoded in UTF-8 and should be restricted to ASCII when possible.
+ In the system PATH, they must be restricted to ASCII.
+ </item>
+<tag>11.5.2</tag>
+ <item>Stop recommending to serve HTML documents from
+ <file>/usr/share/doc/<var>package</var></file>.
+ </item>
+<tag>12.2</tag>
+ <item>Packages distributing Info documents should use
+ <package>install-info</package>'s trigger, and do not need anymore
+ to depend on <tt>dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info</tt>.
+ </item>
+<tag>debconf</tag>
+ <item>The <tt>escape</tt> capability is now documented.
+ </item>
+<tag>virtual</tag>
+ <item><tt>mp3-decoder</tt> and <tt>mp3-encoder</tt> are removed.</item>
+</taglist></p>
+
<sect id="3.9.4.0"> Version 3.9.4.0
<p>
-Unreleased.
+Released August, 2012.
</p><p><taglist>
<tag>2.4</tag>
<item>New <em>tasks</em> archive section.
</item>
+<tag>4.9</tag>
+ <item><tt>build-arch</tt> and <tt>build-indep</tt> are now mandatory
+ targets in <file>debian/rules</file>.
+ </item>
<tag>5.6.26</tag>
<item>New section documenting the <tt>Vcs-*</tt> fields, which are
already in widespread use. Note the mechanism for specifying the Git
at build time. This is used to ensure that the archive meets license
requirements for providing source for all binaries.
</item>
+<tag>8.6</tag>
+ <item>Policy for dependencies between shared libraries and other
+ packages has been largely rewritten to document the <tt>symbols</tt>
+ system and more clearly document handling of shared library ABI
+ changes. <file>symbols</file> files are now recommended
+ over <file>shlibs</file> files in most situations. All maintainers of
+ shared library packages should review the entirety of this section.
+ </item>
+<tag>9.1.1</tag>
+ <item>Packages must not assume the <file>/run</file> directory exists or
+ is usable without a dependency on <tt>initscripts (>= 2.88dsf-13.3)</tt>
+ until the stable release of Debian supports <file>/run</file>.
+ </item>
+<tag>9.7</tag>
+ <item>Packages including MIME configuration can now rely on triggers and
+ do not need to call update-mime.</item>
+<tag>9.11</tag>
+ <item>New section documenting general requirements for alternate init
+ systems and specific requirements for integrating with upstart.
+ </item>
<tag>12.5</tag>
<item>All copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8.
</item>
<item>The system-wide mail directory is now /var/mail, no longer
/var/spool/mail. Any packages accessing the mail spool should
access it via /var/mail and include a suitable Depends field;
- details in
</item>
<tag>11.9; perl-policy</tag>
<item>The perl policy is now part of Debian policy
<tag>10.1</tag>
<item>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. Details in
+ package with debugging information optionally.
</item>
<tag>12.8</tag>
<item>Policy for packages where the upstream uses HTML changelog