Merge branch 'master' into bug477240-rra

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

diff --git a/upgrading-checklist.sgml b/upgrading-checklist.sgml
index 964672c4629e503731f073da9a840b7e6bc1f66a..3dc378c102aef1bd31259dd41476a9675f8877a7 100644 (file)
--- a/upgrading-checklist.sgml
+++ b/upgrading-checklist.sgml
@@ -40,6 +40,11 @@ picking your way through this list.
 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
@@ -55,6 +60,12 @@ Not yet released.
   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.
@@ -78,6 +89,12 @@ Not yet released.
   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