debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
+ * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
+ * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement on dependancies
+ and priorities closes: Bug#39398
* [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
* [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
+ * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
* [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
alternative closes: Bug#53755
* [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
.
* Other changes:
+ * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
+ not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
* Added policy-process to document current procedures.
* Installed FHS version 2.1
* Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
+ * Added FHS details to copyright file
--
-debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
-
- * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
- not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
-
- -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
-
-debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
-
- * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
- * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
-
- -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
-
debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
+This is the Debian package of Debian Policy Manual, the Filesystem
+Hierarchy Standard, the Linux Filesystem Standard and related
+documents. It was originally assembled by Christian Schwarz and is now
+maintained by the Debian Policy Group
+<debian-policy@lists.debian.org>.
-This is the Debian package of Debian Policy Manual, the Linux
-Filesystem Standard and related documents. It was assembled by
-Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>.
+The FHS and FSSTND documents were downloaded from
+http://www.pathname.com/fhs/.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Copyright of the Debian Policy Manual:
-Copyright ©1996 Ian Jackson.
+Copyright (C) 1996 Ian Jackson.
This manual is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
MA 02111-1307, USA.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Copyright of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS)
+
+Copyright (C) 1994-2000 Daniel Quinlan
+
+Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
+standard provided the copyright and this permission notice are preserved
+on all copies.
+
+[troff source includes the following paragraph:
+Permission is granted to process this file through a typesetter (such as
+troff) and print the results, provided the printed document carries a
+permission notice identical to this one except for the removal of this
+paragraph (this paragraph not being relevant to the printed document).]
+
+Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
+standard under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided also that
+the title page is labeled as modified including a reference to the
+original standard, provided that information on retrieving the original
+standard is included, and provided that the entire resulting derived
+work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to
+this one.
+
+Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this
+standard into another language, under the above conditions for modified
+versions, except that this permission notice may be stated in a
+translation approved by the copyright holder.
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
Copyright of the Linux Filesystem Standard (FSSTND).
gzip -9f $$file.text; \
done
tar zfx $(FHS_ARCHIVE)
- # Need to use a patched tmac.m macro file; can remove this
- # bit once groff is fixed
- cp /usr/share/groff/tmac/tmac.m fhs
- cd fhs && patch -p1 < ../mm1.32-patch
+ # Need to use a patched tmac.m macro file if we're using a pre-1.16
+ # groff; version 1.16 is apparently fixed
+ if [ dpkg --compare-versions \
+ `dpkg -s groff | sed -n -e 's/Version: //p'` lt 1.16 ]; then \
+ cp /usr/share/groff/tmac/tmac.m fhs && \
+ cd fhs && patch -p1 < ../mm1.32-patch; \
+ fi
+ # The extra '.' in the tmac path doesn't matter if
GROFF_TMAC_PATH=. cd fhs && $(MAKE) all
lynx -dump fhs-changes-2.1.html > fhs/fhs-changes-2.1.text
lynx -dump upgrading-checklist.html > upgrading-checklist.text
<p>
Packages may not depend on packages with lower priority
- values (excluding build-time dependencies). If this does
- happen, one of the priority values will have to be adapted.
+ values (excluding build-time dependencies). In order to
+ ensure this, the priorities of one or more packages may have
+ to be adjusted.
</p>
</sect>
maintainer scripts during installation (or at any other
time).</p>
+ <p>
+ In order to ensure that local changes are preserved
+ correctly, no package may contain or make hard links to
+ conffiles.
+ <footnote>
+ <p>
+ Rationale: There are two problems with hard links.
+ The first is that some editors break the link while
+ editing one of the files, so that the two files may
+ unwittingly become different. The second is that
+ <prgn>dpkg</prgn> might break the hard link while
+ upgrading <tt>conffile</tt>s.
+ </p>
+ </footnote>
+
<p>
The other way to do it is to via the maintainer scripts.
In this case, the configuration file must not be listed as
not be mixed</em>, for that way lies madness:
<prgn>dpkg</prgn> will ask about overwriting the file
every time the package is upgraded.</p>
+
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