Mention optional special role for the first changelog line

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

diff --git a/upgrading-checklist.sgml b/upgrading-checklist.sgml
index 37830375c18f604bd26798c4c4ef23d21bc64268..4e0ad915bc5dc940596024e86398dfe689a67066 100644 (file)
--- a/upgrading-checklist.sgml
+++ b/upgrading-checklist.sgml
@@ -40,16 +40,41 @@ 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>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.
@@ -67,6 +92,38 @@ Not yet released.
   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>