X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=upgrading-checklist.sgml;h=bc221a6a256b4d6f0400c681372e3b573182713c;hb=e812e2722ec5c535065ed7d7176e7c963e0b0f8d;hp=982f017032658f00034a5bdb33a9106bfabb7a8f;hpb=6bdc982dafc8714fd06349b68e05c25b0cd38001;p=debian%2Fdebian-policy.git diff --git a/upgrading-checklist.sgml b/upgrading-checklist.sgml index 982f017..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 @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ picking your way through this list. Version 3.9.3.0

-Unreleased. +Released February, 2012.

2.4 @@ -49,16 +49,39 @@ 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 prefix. + 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 @@ -69,6 +92,15 @@ 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 + 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.