X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=upgrading-checklist.sgml;h=bc221a6a256b4d6f0400c681372e3b573182713c;hb=ae016e761e423ad2e84084b77bcd132013bc2f67;hp=a0f46980356505ebe93fba83a7075d3cd5628ef4;hpb=d87b820af684e823db0d13542635a987ad9504dc;p=debian%2Fdebian-policy.git diff --git a/upgrading-checklist.sgml b/upgrading-checklist.sgml index a0f4698..bc221a6 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 +34,10 @@ picking your way through this list. The checklist - Version 3.9.3.0 + Version 3.9.3.0

-Unreleased. +Released February, 2012.

2.4 @@ -49,16 +49,60 @@ 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 + 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 + Packages may declare an interest in the perl-major-upgrade trigger to be notified of major upgrades of perl. virtual @@ -67,7 +111,7 @@ Unreleased.

- Version 3.9.2.0 + Version 3.9.2.0

Released April, 2011. @@ -137,7 +181,7 @@ Released April, 2011.

- Version 3.9.1.0 + Version 3.9.1.0

Released July, 2010. @@ -234,7 +278,7 @@ Released July, 2010.

- Version 3.9.0.0 + Version 3.9.0.0

Released June, 2010. @@ -333,7 +377,7 @@ Released June, 2010.

- Version 3.8.4.0 + Version 3.8.4.0

Release Jan 2010. @@ -354,7 +398,7 @@ Release Jan 2010.

- Version 3.8.3.0 + Version 3.8.3.0

Released Aug 2009. @@ -410,7 +454,7 @@ Released Aug 2009.

- Version 3.8.2.0 + Version 3.8.2.0

Released Jun 2009. @@ -450,7 +494,7 @@ Released Jun 2009.

- Version 3.8.1.0 + Version 3.8.1.0

Released Mar 2009. @@ -508,7 +552,7 @@ Released Mar 2009.

- Version 3.8.0.0 + Version 3.8.0.0

Released Jun 2008. @@ -587,7 +631,7 @@ Released Jun 2008. Underscore (_) is allowed in debconf template names.

- Version 3.7.3.0 + Version 3.7.3.0

Released Dec 2007. @@ -629,7 +673,7 @@ Released Dec 2007. be referenced rather than quoted in debian/copyright.

- Version 3.7.2.2 + Version 3.7.2.2

Released Oct 2006. @@ -639,7 +683,7 @@ Released Oct 2006. should to a must)

- Version 3.7.2.0 + Version 3.7.2.0

Released Apr 2006. @@ -648,7 +692,7 @@ Released Apr 2006. 11.5 Revert the cgi-lib change.

- Version 3.7.1.0 + Version 3.7.1.0

Released Apr 2006. @@ -668,7 +712,7 @@ 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. @@ -709,7 +753,7 @@ Released Apr 2006. is gone.

- Version 3.6.2.0 + Version 3.6.2.0

Released 2005 @@ -729,7 +773,7 @@ Released 2005

- Version 3.6.1.0 + Version 3.6.1.0

Released Aug 2003. @@ -740,7 +784,7 @@ Released Aug 2003. user prompts are now deprecated.

- Version 3.6.0 + Version 3.6.0

Released Jul 2003. @@ -784,7 +828,7 @@ Released Jul 2003. target.

- Version 3.5.10 + Version 3.5.10

Released May 2003. @@ -799,7 +843,7 @@ 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. @@ -821,7 +865,7 @@ Released Mar 2003. (rather than /usr/share/doc/package/examples).

- Version 3.5.8.0 + Version 3.5.8.0

Released Nov 2002. @@ -845,7 +889,7 @@ Released Nov 2002. are still a bug.

- Version 3.5.7.0 + Version 3.5.7.0

Released Aug 2002. @@ -884,7 +928,7 @@ 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. @@ -909,7 +953,7 @@ Released Jul 2001. there is a new Build-Depend-Indep semantic.

- Version 3.5.5.0 + Version 3.5.5.0

Released May 2001. @@ -963,7 +1007,7 @@ Released May 2001.

- Version 3.5.4.0 + Version 3.5.4.0

Released Apr 2001.

@@ -980,7 +1024,7 @@ Released May 2001.

- Version 3.5.3.0 + Version 3.5.3.0

Released Apr 2001

@@ -996,7 +1040,7 @@ Released May 2001.

- Version 3.5.2.0 + Version 3.5.2.0

Released Feb 2001. @@ -1008,7 +1052,7 @@ Released May 2001.

- Version 3.5.1.0 + Version 3.5.1.0

Released Feb 2001. @@ -1019,7 +1063,7 @@ Released May 2001.

- Version 3.5.0.0 + Version 3.5.0.0

Released Jan 2001. @@ -1030,7 +1074,7 @@ Released May 2001.

- Version 3.2.1.1 + Version 3.2.1.1

Released Jan 2001. @@ -1052,7 +1096,7 @@ Released May 2001.

- Version 3.2.1.0 + Version 3.2.1.0

Released Aug 00. @@ -1064,7 +1108,7 @@ Released May 2001.

- Version 3.2.0.0 + Version 3.2.0.0

Released Aug 00. @@ -1115,7 +1159,7 @@ Released May 2001.

- Version 3.1.1.0 + Version 3.1.1.0

Released Nov 1999. @@ -1126,7 +1170,7 @@ Released May 2001.

- Version 3.1.0.0 + Version 3.1.0.0

Released Oct 1999. @@ -1181,7 +1225,7 @@ Released May 2001.

- Version 3.0.1.0 + Version 3.0.1.0

Released Jul 1999. @@ -1193,7 +1237,7 @@ Released May 2001.

- Version 3.0.0.0 + Version 3.0.0.0

Released Jun 1999. @@ -1238,7 +1282,7 @@ 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. @@ -1277,7 +1321,7 @@ Policy Manual:

- Version 2.4.1.0 + Version 2.4.1.0

Released Apr 1998.

@@ -1304,7 +1348,7 @@ Policy Manual:

- Version 2.4.0.0 + Version 2.4.0.0

Released Jan 1998 @@ -1380,7 +1424,7 @@ Policy Manual:

- Version 2.3.0.1, 2.3.0.0 + Version 2.3.0.1, 2.3.0.0

Released Sep 1997. @@ -1397,7 +1441,7 @@ Policy Manual: MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile

- Version 2.2.0.0 + Version 2.2.0.0

Released July 1997. @@ -1424,7 +1468,7 @@ 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. @@ -1442,7 +1486,7 @@ 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. @@ -1450,7 +1494,7 @@ Policy Manual: Some changes WRT shared libraries

- Version 2.1.1.0 + Version 2.1.1.0

Released Sep 1996. @@ -1463,7 +1507,7 @@ without consultation Shared libraries must be installed stripped

- Version 2.1.0.0 + Version 2.1.0.0

Released Aug 1996.