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diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index f866dd3..a8afd41 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -229,9 +229,8 @@
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.
+ For packages in the main archive, no required targets + may attempt network access. +
The targets are as follows:
@@ -2367,8 +2373,7 @@ 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
Empty field values are only permitted in source package control files
+ (
A paragraph must not contain more than one instance of a
particular field name.
@@ -2700,6 +2707,7 @@ Package: libc6
file. These tools are responsible for removing the line
breaks from such fields when using fields from
@@ -3674,7 +3682,7 @@ 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 +6926,20 @@ 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
+
The optional rules related to user specific
@@ -6959,8 +6981,18 @@ Built-Using: grub2 (= 1.99-9), loadlin (= 1.6e-1)
+ The requirement for C and C++ headers files to be
+ accessible through the search path
+
@@ -7029,6 +7061,21 @@ Built-Using: grub2 (= 1.99-9), loadlin (= 1.6e-1) kernel information.
+ The
+ The requirement for
On GNU/Hurd systems, the following additional @@ -7309,6 +7356,35 @@ rmdir /usr/local/share/emacs 2>/dev/null || true
+ This value must not be used, because it was + the error return sentinel value when uid_t + was 16 bits. +
+
+ Dynamically allocated user accounts. By
+ default
+ (uid_t)(-2) == (gid_t)(-2) must not be + used, because it is used as the anonymous, unauthenticated + user by some NFS implementations. +
+(uid_t)(-1) == (gid_t)(-1) must @@ -8432,7 +8508,17 @@ 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
@@ -8841,6 +8927,7 @@ fname () {
would point to
@@ -9739,7 +9826,7 @@ http://localhost/cgi-bin/.../cgi-bin-name