X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=upgrading-checklist.sgml;h=ebd0a68b106ca6f9e94915888ae1f8e0ec080b25;hb=8e9cc36e5ce0dcfd2d9d07e7b71283aff05de94f;hp=37830375c18f604bd26798c4c4ef23d21bc64268;hpb=804c197f6ec5c2118d75d17859a907b675a58c4e;p=debian%2Fdebian-policy.git diff --git a/upgrading-checklist.sgml b/upgrading-checklist.sgml index 3783037..ebd0a68 100644 --- a/upgrading-checklist.sgml +++ b/upgrading-checklist.sgml @@ -34,22 +34,66 @@ picking your way through this list. The checklist + Version 3.9.2.0 +

+ +Unreleased. + +

+3.3 + Clarify the duties of a maintainer, require that the maintainer + address accept mail from Debian role accounts and the BTS, and require + at least one human with their personal email address + in Uploaders if the maintainer is a shared email address. + +virtual + mailx added as a virtual package provided by packages + that install /usr/bin/mailx and implement at least the + POSIX-required interface. + +

+ Version 3.9.1.0

-Not yet released. +Released July, 2010.

+3.2.1 + Date-based version components should be given as the four-digit + year, two-digit month, and then two-digit day, but may have embedded + punctuation. + 3.9 Maintainer scripts must pass --package to dpkg-divert when creating or removing diversions and must not use --local. +4.10 + Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitution. + dpkg-genchanges (for *.changes) + and dpkg-source (for *.dsc) do not. + 7.1 Architecture restrictions and wildcards are also allowed in binary package relationships provided that the binary package is not architecture-independent. +7.4 + Conflicts and Breaks should only be used when + there are file conflicts or one package breaks the other, not just + because two packages provide similar functionality but don't interfere. + +8.1 + The SONAME of a library should change whenever the ABI of the + library changes in a way that isn't backward-compatible. It should not + change if the library ABI changes are backward-compatible. Discourage + bundling shared libraries together in one package. + +8.4 + Ada Library Information (*.ali) files must be + installed read-only. + 8.6.1, 8.6.2, 8.6.5 Packages should normally not include a shlibs.local file since we now have complete shlibs coverage. @@ -67,6 +111,38 @@ Not yet released. that depend on that library have removed or emptied their .la files. +10.2 + Libraries no longer need to be built with -D_REENTRANT, + which was an obsolete LinuxThreads requirement. Instead, say explicitly + that libraries should be built with threading support and to be + thread-safe if the library supports this. + +10.4 + /bin/sh scripts may assume that kill + supports an argument of -signal, + that kill and trap support the numeric signals + listed in the XSI extension, and that signal 13 (SIGPIPE) can be trapped + with trap. + +10.8 + Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for + logrotate rules. + +10.9 + Control information files should be owned by root:root + and either mode 644 or mode 755. + +11.4, 11.8.3, 11.8.4 + Packages providing alternatives for editor, + pager, x-terminal-emulator, or + x-window-manager should also provide a slave alternative + for the corresponding manual page. + +11.5 + Cgi-bin executable files may be installed in subdirectories + of /usr/lib/cgi-bin and web servers should serve out + executables in those subdirectories. + 12.5 The GPL version 1 is now included in common-licenses and should be referenced from there instead of included in the copyright