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diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index cc9d5f8..fa0a390 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -2367,8 +2367,7 @@ 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 +2541,7 @@ 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, -.
@@ -2759,6 +2758,7 @@ Package: libc6
- Uploaders
- Homepage
- Vcs-Browser, Vcs-Git, et al.
+ - Dgit
- Standards-Version (recommended)
- Build-Depends et al
- Package-List (recommended)
@@ -3840,6 +3840,26 @@ Checksums-Sha256:
this value is assumed for paragraphs lacking this field.
+
+
+ Dgit
+
+
+ Folded field containing a single git commit hash, presented in
+ full, followed optionally by whitespace and other data to be
+ defined in future extensions.
+
+
+
+ Declares that the source package corresponds exactly to a
+ referenced commit in a Git repository available at the canonical
+ location called dgit-repos, used by dgit, a
+ bidirectional gateway between the Debian archive and Git. The
+ commit is reachable from at least one reference whose name matches
+ refs/dgit/*. See the manual page of dgit for
+ further details.
+
+
@@ -6897,6 +6917,20 @@ 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
@@ -6942,6 +6976,17 @@ Built-Using: grub2 (= 1.99-9), loadlin (= 1.6e-1)
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.
+
+
Applications may also use a single subdirectory under
/usr/lib/triplet.
@@ -7000,15 +7045,24 @@ Built-Using: grub2 (= 1.99-9), loadlin (= 1.6e-1)
stable release of Debian supports /run.
- -
-
- The following directories in the root filesystem are
- additionally allowed: /sys and
- /selinux. These directories
- are used as mount points to mount virtual filesystems
- to get access to kernel information.
-
-
+ -
+
+ The /sys directory in the root filesystem is
+ additionally allowed. This directory is used as
+ mount point to mount virtual filesystems to get access to
+ kernel information.
+
+
+ -
+
+ 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
@@ -8989,8 +9043,10 @@ ln -fs ../sbin/sendmail debian/tmp/usr/bin/runq
package is purged.
- Obsolete configuration files without local changes may be
- removed by the package during upgrade.
+ Obsolete configuration files without local changes should be
+ removed by the package during upgrade.
+ The dpkg-maintscript-helper tool, available from the
+ dpkg package, can help for this task.
@@ -9474,7 +9530,7 @@ done
-
+
File names
@@ -9489,7 +9545,7 @@ done
outside the system PATH must be encoded in UTF-8 and should be
restricted to ASCII when it is possible to do so.
-
+
@@ -9676,15 +9732,16 @@ 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).
-