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diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 138d320..6eac491 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -1746,11 +1746,14 @@ zope.
The maintainer name and email address used in the changelog
- should be the details of the person uploading this
- version. They are not necessarily those of the
- usual package maintainer.
- If the developer uploading the package is not one of the usual
- maintainers of the package (as listed in
+ should be the details of the person who prepared this release of
+ the package. They are not necessarily those of the
+ uploader or usual package maintainer.
+ In the case of a sponsored upload, the uploader signs the
+ files, but the changelog maintainer name and address are those
+ of the person who prepared this release. If the preparer of
+ the release is not one of the usual maintainers of the package
+ (as listed in
the Maintainer
or Uploaders control
fields of the package), the first line of the changelog is
@@ -2367,8 +2370,7 @@ endif
This is an optional, recommended configuration file for the
uscan utility which defines how to automatically scan
ftp or http sites for newly available updates of the
- package. This is used
- by and other Debian QA
+ package. This is used Debian QA
tools to help with quality control and maintenance of the
distribution as a whole.
@@ -2542,7 +2544,7 @@ endif
composed of US-ASCII characters excluding control characters,
space, and colon (i.e., characters in the ranges 33-57 and
59-126, inclusive). Field names must not begin with the comment
- character, #.
+ character, #, nor with the hyphen character, -.
@@ -3674,7 +3676,7 @@ Files:
The special value byhand for the section in a
.changes file indicates that the file in question
- is not an ordinary package file and must by installed by
+ is not an ordinary package file and must be installed by
hand by the distribution maintainers. If the section is
byhand the priority should be -.
@@ -6918,6 +6920,20 @@ Built-Using: grub2 (= 1.99-9), loadlin (= 1.6e-1)
exceptions to the FHS apply:
+ -
+
+ The FHS requirement that architecture-independent
+ application-specific static files be located in
+ /usr/share is relaxed to a suggestion.
+
+ In particular, a subdirectory of /usr/lib may
+ be used by a package (or a collection of packages) to hold a
+ mixture of architecture-independent and
+ architecture-dependent files. However, when a directory is
+ entirely composed of architecture-independent files, it
+ should be located in /usr/share.
+
+
-
The optional rules related to user specific
@@ -6959,8 +6975,18 @@ Built-Using: grub2 (= 1.99-9), loadlin (= 1.6e-1)
This is necessary in order to reserve the directories for
use in cross-installation of library packages from other
- architectures, as part of the planned deployment of
- multiarch.
+ architectures, as part of multiarch.
+
+
+
+ The requirement for C and C++ headers files to be
+ accessible through the search path
+ /usr/include/ is amended, permitting files to
+ be accessible through the search path
+ /usr/include/triplet where
+ triplet is as above.
+ This is necessary for architecture-dependant headers
+ file to coexist in a multiarch setup.
@@ -7029,6 +7055,21 @@ Built-Using: grub2 (= 1.99-9), loadlin (= 1.6e-1)
kernel information.
+ -
+
+ The /var/www directory is additionally allowed.
+
+
+ -
+
+ The requirement for /usr/local/lib<qual>
+ to exist if /lib<qual> or
+ /usr/lib<qual> exists (where
+ lib<qual> is a variant of
+ lib such as lib32 or
+ lib64) is removed.
+
+
-
On GNU/Hurd systems, the following additional
@@ -8432,7 +8473,17 @@ fi
renamed. If a consensus cannot be reached, both
programs must be renamed.
-
+
+ Binary executables must not be statically linked with the GNU C
+ library, since this prevents the binary from benefiting from
+ fixes and improvements to the C library without being rebuilt
+ and complicates security updates. This requirement may be
+ relaxed for binary executables whose intended purpose is to
+ diagnose and fix the system in situations where the GNU C
+ library may not be usable (such as system recovery shells or
+ utilities like ldconfig) or for binary executables where the
+ security benefits of static linking outweigh the drawbacks.
+
By default, when a package is being built, any binaries
created should include debugging information, as well as
@@ -9698,15 +9749,16 @@ done
Cgi-bin executable files are installed in the
directory
-/usr/lib/cgi-bin/cgi-bin-name
+/usr/lib/cgi-bin
+
+ or a subdirectory of that directory, and the script
+
+/usr/lib/cgi-bin/.../cgi-bin-name
- or a subdirectory of that directory, and should be
- referred to as
+ should be referred to as
-http://localhost/cgi-bin/cgi-bin-name
+http://localhost/cgi-bin/.../cgi-bin-name
- (possibly with a subdirectory name
- before cgi-bin-name).
-
@@ -9738,7 +9790,7 @@ http://localhost/cgi-bin/cgi-bin-name
doc-base package. If access to the
web document root is unavoidable then use
-/var/www
+/var/www/html
as the Document Root. This might be just a symbolic
link to the location where the system administrator