X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=upgrading-checklist.sgml;h=480fef68d53f54513a61f7aa8804757d73bf362c;hb=29e3fc2e05b59a7e13913a263a1e22d40cbc9918;hp=88c1950e883dab0838c8637a38f0652793d3a474;hpb=bec143010dd02798dbb7b6fa26d754a476cf0166;p=debian%2Fdebian-policy.git diff --git a/upgrading-checklist.sgml b/upgrading-checklist.sgml index 88c1950..480fef6 100644 --- a/upgrading-checklist.sgml +++ b/upgrading-checklist.sgml @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Bill Allombert Josip Rodin Julian Gilbey - Russ Allbery + Russ Allbery Manoj Srivastava About the checklist @@ -34,11 +34,39 @@ picking your way through this list. The checklist - Version 3.9.3.0 + Version 3.9.4.0

Unreleased. +

+2.4 + New tasks archive section. + +5.6.26 + New section documenting the Vcs-* fields, which are + already in widespread use. Note the mechanism for specifying the Git + branch used for packaging in the Vcs-Git field. + +7.1 + The deprecated relations < and > now must not be used. + +7.8 + New Built-Using field, which must be used to document the + source packages for any binaries that are incorporated into this package + at build time. This is used to ensure that the archive meets license + requirements for providing source for all binaries. + +12.5 + All copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8. + +

+ + Version 3.9.3.0 +

+ +Released February, 2012. +

2.4 New archive sections education, introspection, @@ -49,6 +77,10 @@ Unreleased. now contain the value any all for source packages building both architecture-independent and architecture-dependent packages. +7.1 + If a dependency is restricted to particular architectures, the + list of architectures must be non-empty. + 9.1.1 /run is allowed as an exception to the FHS and replaces /var/run. /run/lock @@ -69,7 +101,7 @@ Unreleased. they will be ignored by cron. They should replace those characters with _. If a package provides multiple cron job files in the same directory, they should each start with the package name (possibly - modified as above), -, and then some suitable prefix. + modified as above), -, and then some suitable suffix. 9.10 Packages using doc-base do not need to call install-docs anymore. @@ -88,9 +120,14 @@ Unreleased. Debian maintainers involved in the creation of the package (although note that the requirement to list copyright information is unchanged). +copyright-format + Version 1.0 of the "Machine-readable debian/copyright + file" specification is included. + mime - Retire this separate document and merge its (short) contents into - Policy section 9.7. There are no changes to the requirements. + This separate document has been retired and and its (short) + contents merged into Policy section 9.7. There are no changes to the + requirements. perl Packages may declare an interest in the perl-major-upgrade