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diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index d489738..74f94e8 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -2534,6 +2534,11 @@ Package: libc6
(and version-dependent) information about a binary package.
+
+ The structure of the Debian changes files is versionned, and
+ this document describes the format 1.8.
+
+
The fields in this file are:
@@ -2615,10 +2620,10 @@ Package: libc6
- Version (mandatory)
- Distribution (mandatory)
- Urgency (recommended)
- - Maintainer (mandatory)
- - Changed-By
+ - Maintainer (mandatory) The meaning of that field changed in version 1.7.
+ - Changed-By Introduced in format 1.7.
- Description (mandatory)
- - Closes
+ - Closes Introduced in format 1.6.
- Changes (mandatory)
- Checksums-Sha1
and Checksums-Sha256 (recommended)
@@ -3259,13 +3264,25 @@ Package: libc6
Format
- This field specifies a format revision for the file.
- The most current format described in the Policy Manual
- is version 1.5. The syntax of the
+ In changes files, this field
+ specifies a format revision for the file. The syntax of the
format value is the same as that of a package version
number except that no epoch or Debian revision is allowed
- see [.
]
+
+
+ In Debian source control
+ files, this field specifies a format revision for the source package.
+ The syntax of the format value is the same as that of a package version
+ number, except that no epoch or Debian revision is allowed
+ and that it can optionally be followed by a parenthesis with a name
+ dpkg-source uses the major number and the content of the
+ parenthesis to decide which perl module to use to build or unpack
+ the source package. For instance, Dpkg::Source::Package::V1 for format
+ 1.0 and Dpkg::Source::Package::V3::quilt for format 3.0 (quilt)
+ .
+
@@ -3526,6 +3543,26 @@ Checksums-Sha256:
+
+ Checksums-Sha1
+
+
+ This field is similar to the Files
+ field, except that it uses the Sha1 algorithm instead of MD5
+ for the checksums.
+
+
+
+
+ Checksums-Sha256
+
+
+ This field is similar to the Files
+ field, except that it uses the Sha1 algorithm instead of MD5
+ for the checksums.
+
+
+