<chapt> The checklist
+<sect> 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>9.10</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>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> Version 3.9.2.0
+<p>
+
+Released April, 2011.
+
+</p><p><taglist>
+<tag>*</tag>
+ <item>Multiple clarifications throughout Policy where "installed" was
+ used and the more precise terms "unpacked" or "configured" were
+ intended.
+ </item>
+<tag>3.3</tag>
+ <item>The maintainer address must accept mail from Debian role accounts
+ and the BTS. At least one human must be listed with their personal
+ 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>
+<tag>6.5</tag>
+ <item>The system state maintainer scripts can rely upon during each
+ possible invocation is now documented. In several less-common cases,
+ this is stricter than Policy had previously documented. Packages with
+ complex maintainer scripts should be reviewed in light of this new
+ documentation.
+ </item>
+<tag>7.2</tag>
+ <item>The impact on system state when maintainer scripts that are part
+ of a circular dependency are run is now documented. Circular
+ dependencies are now a should not.
+ </item>
+<tag>7.2</tag>
+ <item>The system state when <prgn>postinst</prgn> and <prgn>prerm</prgn>
+ scripts are run is now documented, and the documentation of the special
+ case of dependency state for <prgn>postrm</prgn> scripts has been
+ improved. <prgn>postrm</prgn> scripts are required to gracefully skip
+ actions if their dependencies are not available.
+ </item>
+<tag>9.1.1</tag>
+ <item>GNU/Hurd systems are allowed <file>/hurd</file>
+ and <file>/servers</file> directories in the root filesystem.
+ </item>
+<tag>9.1.1</tag>
+ <item>Packages installing to architecture-specific subdirectories of
+ <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
<p>
with <prgn>trap</prgn>.
</item>
<tag>10.8</tag>
- <item>Recommend <file>/etc/logrotate.d/<var>package</var></file> for
- logrotate rules.
+ <item>Use of <file>/etc/logrotate.d/<var>package</var></file> for
+ logrotate rules is now recommended.
</item>
<tag>10.9</tag>
<item>Control information files should be owned by <tt>root:root</tt>
particular field name.
</item>
<tag>5.4, 5.5, 5.6.24</tag>
- <item>Document and recommend the <tt>Checksums-Sha1</tt>
- and <tt>Checksums-Sha256</tt> fields in <file>*.dsc</file>
- and <file>*.changes</file> files.
+ <item>The <tt>Checksums-Sha1</tt> and <tt>Checksums-Sha256</tt> fields
+ in <file>*.dsc</file> and <file>*.changes</file> files are now
+ documented and recommended.
</item>
<tag>5.5, 5.6.16</tag>
<item>The <tt>Format</tt> field of <file>.changes</file> files is now
common-licenses for the time being.
</item>
<tag>debconf</tag>
- <item>Add <tt>SETTITLE</tt> (which has been supported for some time).
- Like <tt>TITLE</tt> but takes a template instead of a string to allow
- translation.
+ <item><tt>SETTITLE</tt> is now documented (it has been supported for
+ some time). <tt>SETTITLE</tt> is like <tt>TITLE</tt> but takes a
+ template instead of a string to allow translation.
</item>
<tag>perl</tag>
<item><package>perl-base</package> now
<file>/usr/lib/triplet</file> directories.
</item>
<tag>10.6</tag>
- <item>Explicitly state that packages may not contain named pipes and
- should instead create them in postinst and remove them in prerm or postrm.
+ <item>Packages may not contain named pipes and should instead create
+ them in postinst and remove them in prerm or postrm.
</item>
<tag>9.1.1</tag>
<item><file>/sys</file> and <file>/selinux</file> directories are explicitly
</p><p><taglist>
<tag>4.9</tag>
- <item>Add DEB_*_ARCH_CPU and DEB_*_ARCH_OS variables and
- recommend them over GNU-style variables for that information.
+ <item>DEB_*_ARCH_CPU and DEB_*_ARCH_OS variables are now documented and
+ recommended over GNU-style variables for that information.
</item>
<tag>5.6.8</tag>
<item>Source package Architecture fields may contain <em/all/ in
<item>The Binary field may span multiple lines.
</item>
<tag>10.2</tag>
- <item>Remove the permission for shared library packages to
- install libraries in a non-standard location and modify <file/ld.so.conf/.
- Packages should either be installed in a standard library directory
- or packages using them should be built with RPATH.
+ <item>Shared library packages are no longer allowed to install libraries
+ in a non-standard location and modify <file/ld.so.conf/. Packages
+ should either be installed in a standard library directory or packages
+ using them should be built with RPATH.
</item>
<tag>11.8.7</tag>
- <item>Clarify installation directories for X programs and
- remove the requirement to pre-depend on x11-common before installing
- into <file>/usr/include/X11</file> and <file>/usr/lib/X11</file>.
+ <item>Installation directories for X programs have been clarified.
+ Packages are no longer required to pre-depend on x11-common before
+ installing into <file>/usr/include/X11</file>
+ and <file>/usr/lib/X11</file>.
</item>
<tag>12.1</tag>
- <item>Remove the requirement that all characters in a manual
- page be representable in the legacy encoding for that language.
+ <item>Manual pages are no longer required to contain only characters
+ representable in the legacy encoding for that language.
</item>
<tag>12.1</tag>
<item>Localized man pages should either be kept up-to-date with
<item>Changelog files must be encoded in UTF-8.
</item>
<tag>4.4</tag>
- <item>Tighten some format requirements for changelog files from a should
- to a must.
+ <item>Some format requirements for changelog files are now "must"
+ instead of "should."
</item>
<tag>4.4.1</tag>
- <item>Remove alternative changelog formats. Debian only supports one
- changelog format for the Debian Archive.
+ <item>Alternative changelog formats have been removed. Debian only
+ supports one changelog format for the Debian Archive.
</item>
<tag>4.9.1</tag>
<item>New nocheck option for DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS indicating any build-time
<item>All control files must be encoded in UTF-8.
</item>
<tag>5.2</tag>
- <item>debian/control allows comment lines starting with # with no
- preceding whitespace.
+ <item><file>debian/control</file> allows comment lines starting with #
+ with no preceding whitespace.
</item>
<tag>9.3</tag>
<item>Init scripts ending in .sh are not handled specially. They are not
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