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3.7.4.0 unreleased
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* The base section has been removed. contrib and non-free have been
removed from the section list; they are only categories. The base
system is now defined by priority. [2.4, 3.7]
* Packages in contrib and non-free should state in the copyright file
that the package is not part of Debian GNU/Linux and briefly
explain why. [12.5]
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3.7.3.0 Dec 2007
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* Package version numbers may contain tildes, which sort before
anything, even the end of a part. [5.6.12]
* Scripts may assume that /bin/sh supports local (at a basic level)
a gettext-based system such as po-debconf. [3.9.1]
* GFDL 1.2, GPL 3, and LGPL 3 are now in common-licenses and should
be referenced rather than quoted in debian/copyright. [12.5]
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3.7.2.2 Oct 2006
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* Maintainer scripts must not be world writeable (up from a
should to a must) [6.1]
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3.7.2.0 Apr 2006
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* Revert the cgi-lib change. [11.5]
3.7.1.0 Apr 2006
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* It is now possible to create shared libraries without
relocatable code (using -fPIC) in certain exceptional cases,
provided some procedures are followed, and for creating static
must pre-depend on x11-common (>= 1:7.0.0) [11.8.7]
3.7.0.0 Apr 2006
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* Packages shipping web server CGI files are expected to install
them in /usr/lib/cgi-lib/ directories. This location change
perhaps should be documented in NEWS [11.5]
/usr/share/fonts/X11/ now, and /usr/X11R6 is gone.
[ 11.8.5.2, 11.8.7, etc]
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3.6.2.0 2005
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* Recommend doc-base, and not menu, for registering package documentation.
* Run time support programs should live in subdirectories of
/usr/lib/ or /usr/share, and preferably the shared lib is named
allow packages to share image files with the web server [11.5]
3.6.1.0 Aug 2003
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+ Prompting the user should be done using debconf. Non debconf
user prompts are now deprecated. [3.10.1]
- Window managers compliant with the Window Manager Specification
Project may add 40 points for ranking in the alternatives [11.8.4]
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3.5.9.0 Mar 2003
- The section describing the Description: package field once again has
example files can be installed into <tt>/usr/share/doc/package</tt>
(rather than <tt>/usr/share/doc/package/examples</tt>). [12.6]
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3.5.8.0 Nov 2002
- It is no longer necessary to keep a log of changes to the upstream
- There are new rules for build-indep/build-arch targets and
there is a new Build-Depend-Indep semantic. [7]
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3.5.5.0 May 2001
- Manpages should not rely on header information to have
* OpenMotif linked binaries have the same rules as
OSF/Motif-linked ones [11.8.8]
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3.5.4.0 Apr 2001
- The system-wide mail directory is now /var/mail, no longer
programs and modules should follow the current Perl policy
[11.9; perl-policy]
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3.5.3.0 Apr 2001
- Build-Depends arch syntax has been changed to be less
symbolic links from /usr/share/doc/<package>/examples as
needed [10.7.3]
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3.5.2.0 Feb 2001
- X app-defaults directory has moved from
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults to /etc/X11/app-defaults [11.8.6]
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3.5.1.0 Feb 2001
- dpkg-shlibdeps now uses objdump, so shared libraries have to be
run through dpkg-shlibdeps as well as executables [8.1]
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3.5.0.0 Jan 2001
- Font packages for the X Window System must now declare a
dependency on xutils (>= 4.0.2) [11.8.5]
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3.2.1.1 Jan 2001
- Daemon startup scripts in /etc/init.d/ should not contain
- Much of the packaging manual has now been imported into the
policy document
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3.2.1.0 Aug 00
- A package of priority standard or higher may provide two
binaries, one compiled with support for the X Window System,
and the other without [11.8.1]
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3.2.0.0 Aug 00
- By default executables should not be built with the debugging
always creating the shared lib before the symlink, so the unpack
order be correct [8]
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3.1.1.0 Nov 1999
- Correction to semantics of architecture lists in Build-Depends
etc. Should not affect many packages [7.1]
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3.1.0.0 Oct 1999
- /usr/doc/<package> has to be a symlink pointing to
- Description of how to handle version numbers based on dates
added [3.2.1]
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3.0.1.0 Jul 1999
- Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
.la files must go in the run-time library package [10.2]
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3.0.0.0 Jun 1999
- Debian formally moves from the FSSTND to the FHS. This is a