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>4.10</tag>
+ <item>Only <prgn>dpkg-gencontrol</prgn> supports variable substitution.
+ <prgn>dpkg-genchanges</prgn> (for <file>*.changes</file>)
+ and <prgn>dpkg-source</prgn> (for <file>*.dsc</file>) do not.
+ </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>8.4</tag>
+ <item>Ada Library Information (<file>*.ali</file>) files must be
+ installed read-only.
+ </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 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>10.4</tag>
+ <item><file>/bin/sh</file> scripts may assume that <prgn>kill</prgn>
+ supports an argument of <tt>-<var>signal</var></tt>,
+ that <prgn>kill</prgn> and <prgn>trap</prgn> support the numeric signals
+ listed in the XSI extension, and that signal 13 (SIGPIPE) can be trapped
+ with <prgn>trap</prgn>.
+ </item>
+<tag>10.8</tag>
+ <item>Recommend <file>/etc/logrotate.d/<var>package</var></file> for
+ logrotate rules.
+ </item>
+<tag>10.9</tag>
+ <item>Control information files should be owned by <tt>root:root</tt>
+ and either mode 644 or mode 755.
+ </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>