X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=upgrading-checklist.sgml;h=0bcb07548f15d0191571b606c2a1abc72395457e;hb=691bbf472a63c72e17fdafd4788ca34127c7ee7b;hp=37830375c18f604bd26798c4c4ef23d21bc64268;hpb=04677e5a64cd5d615d351af3714ecdb21f9c2ef5;p=debian%2Fdebian-policy.git diff --git a/upgrading-checklist.sgml b/upgrading-checklist.sgml index 3783037..0bcb075 100644 --- a/upgrading-checklist.sgml +++ b/upgrading-checklist.sgml @@ -40,6 +40,11 @@ picking your way through this list. Not yet released.

+3.2.1 + Date-based version components should be given as the four-digit + year, two-digit month, and then two-digit day, but may have embedded + punctuation. + 3.9 Maintainer scripts must pass --package to dpkg-divert when creating or removing diversions and @@ -50,6 +55,11 @@ Not yet released. package relationships provided that the binary package is not architecture-independent. +7.4 + Conflicts and Breaks should only be used when + there are file conflicts or one package breaks the other, not just + because two packages provide similar functionality but don't interfere. + 8.6.1, 8.6.2, 8.6.5 Packages should normally not include a shlibs.local file since we now have complete shlibs coverage. @@ -67,6 +77,23 @@ Not yet released. that depend on that library have removed or emptied their .la files. +10.2 + Libraries no longer need to be built with -D_REENTRANT, + which was an obsolete LinuxThreads requirement. Instead, say explicitly + that libraries should be built with threading support and to be + thread-safe if the library supports this. + +11.4, 11.8.3, 11.8.4 + Packages providing alternatives for editor, + pager, x-terminal-emulator, or + x-window-manager should also provide a slave alternative + for the corresponding manual page. + +11.5 + Cgi-bin executable files may be installed in subdirectories + of /usr/lib/cgi-bin and web servers should serve out + executables in those subdirectories. + 12.5 The GPL version 1 is now included in common-licenses and should be referenced from there instead of included in the copyright