Merge branch 'master' into bug477240-rra

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

diff --git a/upgrading-checklist.sgml b/upgrading-checklist.sgml
index fabc1cbab3eb84f2d068fe3e9335283da5ef681e..3dc378c102aef1bd31259dd41476a9675f8877a7 100644 (file)
--- a/upgrading-checklist.sgml
+++ b/upgrading-checklist.sgml
@@ -40,6 +40,66 @@ 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
+  must not use <tt>--local</tt>.
+  </item>
+<tag>7.1</tag>
+  <item>Architecture restrictions and wildcards are also allowed in binary
+  package relationships provided that the binary package is not
+  architecture-independent.
+  </item>
+<tag>7.4</tag>
+  <item><tt>Conflicts</tt> and <tt>Breaks</tt> should only be used when
+  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.
+  </item>
+<tag>8.6.3</tag>
+  <item>The SONAME of a library may instead be of the
+  form <tt><var>name</var>-<var>major-version</var>.so</tt>.
+  </item>
+<tag>10.2</tag>
+  <item>Libtool <file>.la</file> files should not be installed for public
+  libraries.  If they're required (for <tt>libltdl</tt>, for instance),
+  the <tt>dependency_libs</tt> setting should be emptied.  Library
+  packages historically including <file>.la</file> files must continue to
+  include them (with <tt>dependency_libs</tt> emptied) until all libraries
+  that depend on that library have removed or emptied
+  their <file>.la</file> files.
+  </item>
+<tag>10.2</tag>
+  <item>Libraries no longer need to be built with <tt>-D_REENTRANT</tt>,
+  which was an obsolete LinuxThreads requirement.  Instead, say explicitly
+  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
+  executables in those subdirectories.
+  </item>
 <tag>12.5</tag>
   <item>The GPL version 1 is now included in common-licenses and should be
   referenced from there instead of included in the <file>copyright</file>