X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=policy.sgml;h=6eac4916c3c3261162a3ca2e5f63cc3bd75fbb41;hb=ed0f1b9dfbd710777f9722310581999d4f24e182;hp=f866dd39bde187eb152ddde531706934246b6120;hpb=21338e1c6600742373d999c00dbbc59b68b3daf3;p=debian%2Fdebian-policy.git diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml index f866dd3..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.

@@ -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 @@ -9739,7 +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