Not yet released.
</p><p><taglist>
+<tag>3.2.1</tag>
+ <item>Date-based version components should be given as the four-digit
+ year, two-digit month, and then two-digit day, but may have embedded
+ punctuation.
+ </item>
<tag>3.9</tag>
<item>Maintainer scripts must pass <tt>--package</tt>
to <prgn>dpkg-divert</prgn> when creating or removing diversions and
there are file conflicts or one package breaks the other, not just
because two packages provide similar functionality but don't interfere.
</item>
+<tag>8.1</tag>
+ <item>The SONAME of a library should change whenever the ABI of the
+ library changes in a way that isn't backward-compatible. It should not
+ change if the library ABI changes are backward-compatible. Discourage
+ bundling shared libraries together in one package.
+ </item>
<tag>8.6.1, 8.6.2, 8.6.5</tag>
<item>Packages should normally not include a <file>shlibs.local</file>
file since we now have complete <file>shlibs</file> coverage.
that libraries should be built with threading support and to be
thread-safe if the library supports this.
</item>
+<tag>11.4, 11.8.3, 11.8.4</tag>
+ <item>Packages providing alternatives for <prgn>editor</prgn>,
+ <prgn>pager</prgn>, <prgn>x-terminal-emulator</prgn>, or
+ <prgn>x-window-manager</prgn> should also provide a slave alternative
+ for the corresponding manual page.
+ </item>
<tag>11.5</tag>
<item>Cgi-bin executable files may be installed in subdirectories
of <file>/usr/lib/cgi-bin</file> and web servers should serve out