X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=upgrading-checklist.sgml;h=6d6b5bde46905b79d4b37cff60425640b17cf752;hb=ef80b68c5668be6b6f3831819b65ed8a7c276ac1;hp=1b390ca78ce213434ff21c0753d93baebe8cee88;hpb=f937158effae6d9bf3de4f52132791a311b5d7b6;p=debian%2Fdebian-policy.git diff --git a/upgrading-checklist.sgml b/upgrading-checklist.sgml index 1b390ca..6d6b5bd 100644 --- a/upgrading-checklist.sgml +++ b/upgrading-checklist.sgml @@ -34,12 +34,64 @@ picking your way through this list. The checklist + Version 3.9.6.0 +

+ +Released xxx, 2014. + +

+9.1 + The FHS is relaxed to allow a subdirectory of /usr/lib + to hold a mixture of architecture-independent and architecture-dependent + files, though directories entirely composed of architecture-independent files + should be located in /usr/share. + +9.1 + The FHS requirement for /usr/local/lib64 to exist + if /lib64 or /usr/lib64 exists is removed. + +9.1 + An FHS exception has been granted for multiarch include files, + permitting header files to instead be installed to + /usr/include/triplet. + +10.1 + Binaries must not be statically linked with the GNU C library, + see policy for exceptions. + +4.4 + It is clarified that signature appearing in debian/changelog should be + the details of the person who prepared this release of the package. + +virtual + java1-runtime and java2-runtime are removed, + javaN-runtime and javaN-runtime-headless are added + for all N between 5 and 9. + +virtual + Added httpd-wsgi for WSGI capable HTTP servers. + +perl + Perl packages should use the %Config hash to locate module + paths instead of hardcoding paths in @INC. + +perl + Perl binary modules and any modules installed into + $Config{vendorarch} must depend on the relevant + perlapi-* package. +

+ Version 3.9.5.0

-Unreleased. +Released October, 2013.

+5.1 + Control data fields must not start with the hyphen character + (-), to avoid potential confusions when parsing clearsigned control + data files that were not properly unescaped. + 5.4, 5.6.24 Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256 are now mandatory in .dsc files. @@ -55,6 +107,38 @@ Unreleased. New section documenting the Package-Type field in source package control files. +5.6.29 + New section documenting the Dgit field in Debian + source control files. + +9.1.1.8 + The exception to the FHS for the /selinux was removed. + +10.7.3 + Packages should remove all obsolete configuration files without + local changes during upgrades. The dpkg-maintscript-helper + tool, available from the dpkg package since + Wheezy, can help with this. + +10.10 + The name of the files and directories installed by binary packages + must be encoded in UTF-8 and should be restricted to ASCII when possible. + In the system PATH, they must be restricted to ASCII. + +11.5.2 + Stop recommending to serve HTML documents from + /usr/share/doc/package. + +12.2 + Packages distributing Info documents should use + install-info's trigger, and do not need anymore + to depend on dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info. + +debconf + The escape capability is now documented. + +virtual + mp3-decoder and mp3-encoder are removed.

Version 3.9.4.0 @@ -1090,7 +1174,6 @@ Released May 2001. The system-wide mail directory is now /var/mail, no longer /var/spool/mail. Any packages accessing the mail spool should access it via /var/mail and include a suitable Depends field; - details in 11.9; perl-policy The perl policy is now part of Debian policy @@ -1191,7 +1274,7 @@ Released May 2001. 10.1 By default executables should not be built with the debugging option -g. Instead, it is recommended to support building the - package with debugging information optionally. Details in + package with debugging information optionally. 12.8 Policy for packages where the upstream uses HTML changelog