<chapt> The checklist
-<sect> Version 3.9.2.0
+<sect id="3.9.3.0"> Version 3.9.3.0
<p>
Unreleased.
+</p><p><taglist>
+<tag>2.4</tag>
+ <item>New archive sections <em>education</em>, <em>introspection</em>,
+ and <em>metapackages</em> added.
+ </item>
+<tag>5.6.8</tag>
+ <item>The <tt>Architecture</tt> field in <file>*.dsc</file> files may
+ now contain the value <tt>any all</tt> for source packages building both
+ architecture-independent and architecture-dependent packages.
+ </item>
+<tag>9.5</tag>
+ <item>Cron job file names must not contain <tt>.</tt> or <tt>+</tt> or
+ they will be ignored by cron. They should replace those characters
+ with <tt>_</tt>. If a package provides multiple cron job files in the
+ same directory, they should each start with the package name (possibly
+ modified as above), <tt>-</tt>, and then some suitable prefix.
+ </item>
+<tag>9.10</tag>
+ <item>Packages using doc-base do not need to call install-docs anymore.
+ </item>
+<tag>11.8</tag>
+ <item>The Policy rules around Motif libraries were just a special case
+ of normal rules for non-free dependencies and were largely obsolete, so
+ they have been removed.
+ </item>
+<tag>12.5</tag>
+ <item><file>debian/copyright</file> is no longer required to list the
+ Debian maintainers involved in the creation of the package (although
+ note that the requirement to list copyright information is unchanged).
+ </item>
+<tag>perl</tag>
+ <item>Packages may declare an interest in the <var>perl-major-upgrade</var>
+ trigger to be notified of major upgrades of perl.
+ </item>
+<tag>virtual</tag>
+ <item><tt>ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic}</tt> is renamed to
+ <tt>fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}</tt>.
+ </item>
+</taglist></p>
+
+<sect id="3.9.2.0"> Version 3.9.2.0
+<p>
+
+Released April, 2011.
+
</p><p><taglist>
<tag>*</tag>
<item>Multiple clarifications throughout Policy where "installed" was
email address in <tt>Uploaders</tt> if the maintainer is a shared email
address. The duties of a maintainer are also clearer.
</item>
+<tag>5</tag>
+ <item>All control fields are now classified as simple, folded, or
+ multiline, which governs whether their values must be a single line or
+ may be continued across multiple lines and whether line breaks are
+ significant.
+ </item>
+<tag>5.1</tag>
+ <item>Parsers are allowed to accept paragraph separation lines
+ containing whitespace, but control files should use completely empty
+ lines. Ordering of paragraphs is significant. Field names must be
+ composed of printable ASCII characters except colon and must not begin
+ with #.
+ </item>
<tag>5.6.25</tag>
<item>The <tt>DM-Upload-Allowed</tt> field is now documented.
</item>
<item>GNU/Hurd systems are allowed <file>/hurd</file>
and <file>/servers</file> directories in the root filesystem.
</item>
-<tag>virtual</tag>
- <item><tt>mailx</tt> is now a virtual package provided by packages that
- install <prgn>/usr/bin/mailx</prgn> and implement at least the
- POSIX-required interface.
- </item>
<tag>9.1.1</tag>
<item>Packages installing to architecture-specific subdirectories of
- <file>/url/lib</file> must use the value returned by
+ <file>/usr/lib</file> must use the value returned by
<prgn>dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH</prgn>, not by
<prgn>dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE</prgn>; this is a path change
on i386 architectures and a no-op for other architectures.
</item>
+<tag>virtual</tag>
+ <item><tt>mailx</tt> is now a virtual package provided by packages that
+ install <prgn>/usr/bin/mailx</prgn> and implement at least the
+ POSIX-required interface.
+ </item>
</taglist></p>
-<sect> Version 3.9.1.0
+<sect id="3.9.1.0"> Version 3.9.1.0
<p>
Released July, 2010.
</item>
</taglist></p>
-<sect> Version 3.9.0.0
+<sect id="3.9.0.0"> Version 3.9.0.0
<p>
Released June, 2010.
</item>
</taglist></p>
-<sect> Version 3.8.4.0
+<sect id="3.8.4.0"> Version 3.8.4.0
<p>
Release Jan 2010.
</item>
</taglist></p>
-<sect> Version 3.8.3.0
+<sect id="3.8.3.0"> Version 3.8.3.0
<p>
Released Aug 2009.
</item>
</taglist></p>
-<sect> Version 3.8.2.0
+<sect id="3.8.2.0"> Version 3.8.2.0
<p>
Released Jun 2009.
</item>
</taglist></p>
-<sect> Version 3.8.1.0
+<sect id="3.8.1.0"> Version 3.8.1.0
<p>
Released Mar 2009.
</item>
</taglist></p>
-<sect> Version 3.8.0.0
+<sect id="3.8.0.0"> Version 3.8.0.0
<p>
Released Jun 2008.
<item>Underscore (_) is allowed in debconf template names.
</taglist></p>
-<sect> Version 3.7.3.0
+<sect id="3.7.3.0"> Version 3.7.3.0
<p>
Released Dec 2007.
be referenced rather than quoted in debian/copyright.
</taglist></p>
-<sect> Version 3.7.2.2
+<sect id="3.7.2.2"> Version 3.7.2.2
<p>
Released Oct 2006.
should to a must)</item>
</taglist></p>
-<sect> Version 3.7.2.0
+<sect id="3.7.2.0"> Version 3.7.2.0
<p>
Released Apr 2006.
<tag>11.5</tag> <item>Revert the cgi-lib change. </item>
</taglist></p>
-<sect> Version 3.7.1.0
+<sect id="3.7.1.0"> Version 3.7.1.0
<p>
Released Apr 2006.
they do so, they must pre-depend on <tt>x11-common (>= 1:7.0.0)</tt>
</taglist></p>
-<sect> Version 3.7.0.0
+<sect id="3.7.0.0"> Version 3.7.0.0
<p>
Released Apr 2006.
is gone.
</taglist></p>
-<sect> Version 3.6.2.0
+<sect id="3.6.2.0"> Version 3.6.2.0
<p>
Released 2005
</item>
</taglist></p>
-<sect> Version 3.6.1.0
+<sect id="3.6.1.0"> Version 3.6.1.0
<p>
Released Aug 2003.
user prompts are now deprecated.
</taglist></p>
-<sect> Version 3.6.0
+<sect id="3.6.0.0"> Version 3.6.0
<p>
Released Jul 2003.
target.
</taglist></p>
-<sect> Version 3.5.10
+<sect id="3.5.10.0"> Version 3.5.10
<p>
Released May 2003.
Project may add 40 points for ranking in the alternatives
</taglist></p>
-<sect> Version 3.5.9.0
+<sect id="3.5.9.0"> Version 3.5.9.0
<p>
Released Mar 2003.
(rather than <file>/usr/share/doc/package/examples</file>).
</taglist></p>
-<sect> Version 3.5.8.0
+<sect id="3.5.8.0"> Version 3.5.8.0
<p>
Released Nov 2002.
are still a bug.
</taglist></p>
-<sect> Version 3.5.7.0
+<sect id="3.5.7.0"> Version 3.5.7.0
<p>
Released Aug 2002.
rules, please see below
</em></p>
-<sect> Version 3.5.6.0
+<sect id="3.5.6.0"> Version 3.5.6.0
<p>
Released Jul 2001.
there is a new Build-Depend-Indep semantic.
</taglist></p>
-<sect> Version 3.5.5.0
+<sect id="3.5.5.0"> Version 3.5.5.0
<p>
Released May 2001.
</taglist></item>
</taglist></p>
-<sect> Version 3.5.4.0
+<sect id="3.5.4.0"> Version 3.5.4.0
<p> Released Apr 2001.
</p><p><taglist>
</item>
</taglist></p>
-<sect> Version 3.5.3.0
+<sect id="3.5.3.0"> Version 3.5.3.0
<p> Released Apr 2001
</p><p><taglist>
</item>
</taglist></p>
-<sect> Version 3.5.2.0
+<sect id="3.5.2.0"> Version 3.5.2.0
<p> Released Feb 2001.
</item>
</taglist></p>
-<sect> Version 3.5.1.0
+<sect id="3.5.1.0"> Version 3.5.1.0
<p> Released Feb 2001.
</item>
</taglist></p>
-<sect> Version 3.5.0.0
+<sect id="3.5.0.0"> Version 3.5.0.0
<p> Released Jan 2001.
</item>
</taglist></p>
-<sect> Version 3.2.1.1
+<sect id="3.2.1.1"> Version 3.2.1.1
<p> Released Jan 2001.
</item>
</taglist></p>
-<sect> Version 3.2.1.0
+<sect id="3.2.1.0"> Version 3.2.1.0
<p> Released Aug 00.
</item>
</taglist></p>
-<sect> Version 3.2.0.0
+<sect id="3.2.0.0"> Version 3.2.0.0
<p> Released Aug 00.
</item>
</taglist></p>
-<sect> Version 3.1.1.0
+<sect id="3.1.1.0"> Version 3.1.1.0
<p> Released Nov 1999.
</item>
</taglist></p>
-<sect> Version 3.1.0.0
+<sect id="3.1.0.0"> Version 3.1.0.0
<p> Released Oct 1999.
</item>
</taglist></p>
-<sect> Version 3.0.1.0
+<sect id="3.0.1.0"> Version 3.0.1.0
<p> Released Jul 1999.
</item>
</taglist></p>
-<sect> Version 3.0.0.0
+<sect id="3.0.0.0"> Version 3.0.0.0
<p> Released Jun 1999.
Please note that section numbers below this point may not be up to date
</em></p>
-<sect> Version 2.5.0.0
+<sect id="2.5.0.0"> Version 2.5.0.0
<p> Released Oct 1998.
</item>
</list></p>
-<sect> Version 2.4.1.0
+<sect id="2.4.1.0"> Version 2.4.1.0
<p> Released Apr 1998.
</p>
</item>
</list></p>
-<sect> Version 2.4.0.0
+<sect id="2.4.0.0"> Version 2.4.0.0
<p> Released Jan 1998
</item>
</taglist></p>
-<sect> Version 2.3.0.1, 2.3.0.0
+<sect id="2.3.0.0"> Version 2.3.0.1, 2.3.0.0
<p> Released Sep 1997.
<item>MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile</item>
</list></p>
-<sect> Version 2.2.0.0
+<sect id="2.2.0.0"> Version 2.2.0.0
<p> Released July 1997.
<item>app-defaults files may not be conffiles</item>
</list></p>
-<sect> Version 2.1.3.2, 2.1.3.1, 2.1.3.0
+<sect id="2.1.3.0"> Version 2.1.3.2, 2.1.3.1, 2.1.3.0
<p> Released Mar 1997.
</item>
</list></p>
-<sect> Version 2.1.2.2, 2.1.2.1, 2.1.2.0
+<sect id="2.1.2.0"> Version 2.1.2.2, 2.1.2.1, 2.1.2.0
<p> Released Nov 1996.
<item>Some changes WRT shared libraries
</list></p>
-<sect> Version 2.1.1.0
+<sect id="2.1.1.0"> Version 2.1.1.0
<p> Released Sep 1996.
<item>Shared libraries must be installed stripped </item>
</list></p>
-<sect> Version 2.1.0.0
+<sect id="2.1.0.0"> Version 2.1.0.0
<p> Released Aug 1996.