X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=upgrading-checklist.sgml;h=6d6b5bde46905b79d4b37cff60425640b17cf752;hb=ef80b68c5668be6b6f3831819b65ed8a7c276ac1;hp=42e76b1f9fa9f007a613dd0fd5f3b73c98333118;hpb=6a2e818277b7993983f9ad975cec580e646c1bdc;p=debian%2Fdebian-policy.git diff --git a/upgrading-checklist.sgml b/upgrading-checklist.sgml index 42e76b1..6d6b5bd 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 @@ -34,10 +34,246 @@ picking your way through this list. The checklist - Version 3.9.2.0 + Version 3.9.6.0

-Released April, 2010. +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 +

+ +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. + +5.6.25, 5.8.1 + The DM-Upload-Allowed field is obsolete. Permissions + are now granted via dak-commands files. +5.6.27 + New section documenting the Package-List field in Debian + source control files. + +5.6.28 + 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 +

+ +Released August, 2012. + +

+2.4 + New tasks archive section. + +4.9 + build-arch and build-indep are now mandatory + targets in debian/rules. + +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. + +8.6 + Policy for dependencies between shared libraries and other + packages has been largely rewritten to document the symbols + system and more clearly document handling of shared library ABI + changes. symbols files are now recommended + over shlibs files in most situations. All maintainers of + shared library packages should review the entirety of this section. + +9.1.1 + Packages must not assume the /run directory exists or + is usable without a dependency on initscripts (>= 2.88dsf-13.3) + until the stable release of Debian supports /run. + +9.7 + Packages including MIME configuration can now rely on triggers and + do not need to call update-mime. +9.11 + New section documenting general requirements for alternate init + systems and specific requirements for integrating with upstart. + +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, + and metapackages added. + +5.6.8 + The Architecture field in *.dsc files may + 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 + replaces /var/lock. The FHS requirements for the older + directories apply to these directories as well. Backward compatibility + links will be maintained and packages need not switch to + referencing /run directly yet. Files in /run + should be stored in a temporary file system. + +9.1.4 + New section spelling out the requirements for packages that use + files in /run, /var/run, + or /var/lock. This generalizes information previously only + in 9.3.2. + +9.5 + Cron job file names must not contain . or + or + 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 suffix. + +9.10 + Packages using doc-base do not need to call install-docs anymore. + +10.7.4 + Packages that declare the same conffile may see left-over + configuration files from each other even if they conflict. + +11.8 + The Policy rules around Motif libraries were just a special case + of normal rules for non-free dependencies and were largely obsolete, so + they have been removed. + +12.5 + debian/copyright is no longer required to list the + 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 + 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 + trigger to be notified of major upgrades of perl. + +virtual + ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} is renamed to + fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}. + +

+ + Version 3.9.2.0 +

+ +Released April, 2011.

* @@ -104,7 +340,7 @@ Released April, 2010.

- Version 3.9.1.0 + Version 3.9.1.0

Released July, 2010. @@ -201,7 +437,7 @@ Released July, 2010.

- Version 3.9.0.0 + Version 3.9.0.0

Released June, 2010. @@ -300,7 +536,7 @@ Released June, 2010.

- Version 3.8.4.0 + Version 3.8.4.0

Release Jan 2010. @@ -321,7 +557,7 @@ Release Jan 2010.

- Version 3.8.3.0 + Version 3.8.3.0

Released Aug 2009. @@ -377,7 +613,7 @@ Released Aug 2009.

- Version 3.8.2.0 + Version 3.8.2.0

Released Jun 2009. @@ -417,7 +653,7 @@ Released Jun 2009.

- Version 3.8.1.0 + Version 3.8.1.0

Released Mar 2009. @@ -475,7 +711,7 @@ Released Mar 2009.

- Version 3.8.0.0 + Version 3.8.0.0

Released Jun 2008. @@ -554,7 +790,7 @@ Released Jun 2008. Underscore (_) is allowed in debconf template names.

- Version 3.7.3.0 + Version 3.7.3.0

Released Dec 2007. @@ -596,7 +832,7 @@ Released Dec 2007. be referenced rather than quoted in debian/copyright.

- Version 3.7.2.2 + Version 3.7.2.2

Released Oct 2006. @@ -606,7 +842,7 @@ Released Oct 2006. should to a must)

- Version 3.7.2.0 + Version 3.7.2.0

Released Apr 2006. @@ -615,7 +851,7 @@ Released Apr 2006. 11.5 Revert the cgi-lib change.

- Version 3.7.1.0 + Version 3.7.1.0

Released Apr 2006. @@ -635,7 +871,7 @@ Released Apr 2006. they do so, they must pre-depend on x11-common (>= 1:7.0.0)

- Version 3.7.0.0 + Version 3.7.0.0

Released Apr 2006. @@ -676,7 +912,7 @@ Released Apr 2006. is gone.

- Version 3.6.2.0 + Version 3.6.2.0

Released 2005 @@ -696,7 +932,7 @@ Released 2005

- Version 3.6.1.0 + Version 3.6.1.0

Released Aug 2003. @@ -707,7 +943,7 @@ Released Aug 2003. user prompts are now deprecated.

- Version 3.6.0 + Version 3.6.0

Released Jul 2003. @@ -751,7 +987,7 @@ Released Jul 2003. target.

- Version 3.5.10 + Version 3.5.10

Released May 2003. @@ -766,7 +1002,7 @@ Released May 2003. Project may add 40 points for ranking in the alternatives

- Version 3.5.9.0 + Version 3.5.9.0

Released Mar 2003. @@ -788,7 +1024,7 @@ Released Mar 2003. (rather than /usr/share/doc/package/examples).

- Version 3.5.8.0 + Version 3.5.8.0

Released Nov 2002. @@ -812,7 +1048,7 @@ Released Nov 2002. are still a bug.

- Version 3.5.7.0 + Version 3.5.7.0

Released Aug 2002. @@ -851,7 +1087,7 @@ Added the last note in 3.5.6 upgrading checklist item regarding build rules, please see below

- Version 3.5.6.0 + Version 3.5.6.0

Released Jul 2001. @@ -876,7 +1112,7 @@ Released Jul 2001. there is a new Build-Depend-Indep semantic.

- Version 3.5.5.0 + Version 3.5.5.0

Released May 2001. @@ -930,7 +1166,7 @@ Released May 2001.

- Version 3.5.4.0 + Version 3.5.4.0

Released Apr 2001.

@@ -938,7 +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 @@ -947,7 +1182,7 @@ Released May 2001.

- Version 3.5.3.0 + Version 3.5.3.0

Released Apr 2001

@@ -963,7 +1198,7 @@ Released May 2001.

- Version 3.5.2.0 + Version 3.5.2.0

Released Feb 2001. @@ -975,7 +1210,7 @@ Released May 2001.

- Version 3.5.1.0 + Version 3.5.1.0

Released Feb 2001. @@ -986,7 +1221,7 @@ Released May 2001.

- Version 3.5.0.0 + Version 3.5.0.0

Released Jan 2001. @@ -997,7 +1232,7 @@ Released May 2001.

- Version 3.2.1.1 + Version 3.2.1.1

Released Jan 2001. @@ -1019,7 +1254,7 @@ Released May 2001.

- Version 3.2.1.0 + Version 3.2.1.0

Released Aug 00. @@ -1031,7 +1266,7 @@ Released May 2001.

- Version 3.2.0.0 + Version 3.2.0.0

Released Aug 00. @@ -1039,7 +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 @@ -1082,7 +1317,7 @@ Released May 2001.

- Version 3.1.1.0 + Version 3.1.1.0

Released Nov 1999. @@ -1093,7 +1328,7 @@ Released May 2001.

- Version 3.1.0.0 + Version 3.1.0.0

Released Oct 1999. @@ -1148,7 +1383,7 @@ Released May 2001.

- Version 3.0.1.0 + Version 3.0.1.0

Released Jul 1999. @@ -1160,7 +1395,7 @@ Released May 2001.

- Version 3.0.0.0 + Version 3.0.0.0

Released Jun 1999. @@ -1205,7 +1440,7 @@ Released May 2001. Please note that section numbers below this point may not be up to date

- Version 2.5.0.0 + Version 2.5.0.0

Released Oct 1998. @@ -1244,7 +1479,7 @@ Policy Manual:

- Version 2.4.1.0 + Version 2.4.1.0

Released Apr 1998.

@@ -1271,7 +1506,7 @@ Policy Manual:

- Version 2.4.0.0 + Version 2.4.0.0

Released Jan 1998 @@ -1347,7 +1582,7 @@ Policy Manual:

- Version 2.3.0.1, 2.3.0.0 + Version 2.3.0.1, 2.3.0.0

Released Sep 1997. @@ -1364,7 +1599,7 @@ Policy Manual: MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile

- Version 2.2.0.0 + Version 2.2.0.0

Released July 1997. @@ -1391,7 +1626,7 @@ Policy Manual: app-defaults files may not be conffiles

- Version 2.1.3.2, 2.1.3.1, 2.1.3.0 + Version 2.1.3.2, 2.1.3.1, 2.1.3.0

Released Mar 1997. @@ -1409,7 +1644,7 @@ Policy Manual:

- Version 2.1.2.2, 2.1.2.1, 2.1.2.0 + Version 2.1.2.2, 2.1.2.1, 2.1.2.0

Released Nov 1996. @@ -1417,7 +1652,7 @@ Policy Manual: Some changes WRT shared libraries

- Version 2.1.1.0 + Version 2.1.1.0

Released Sep 1996. @@ -1430,7 +1665,7 @@ without consultation Shared libraries must be installed stripped

- Version 2.1.0.0 + Version 2.1.0.0

Released Aug 1996.