From: Russ Allbery Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:43:33 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Add changelog for control information file terminology fix X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6bdbae510b83904ea4c31434d1215ffa6ea2debc;p=debian%2Fdebian-policy.git Add changelog for control information file terminology fix --- diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index bc99eb9..1d972b2 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -65,6 +65,11 @@ debian-policy (3.9.1.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information. + * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the + Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use + that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing + references to fields in control files to use "control field" + uniformly. * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750) * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)