Jonathan Nieder [Sat, 9 Mar 2013 23:14:17 +0000 (15:14 -0800)]
Delegate udeb policy description to d-i internals manual
Closes: #698030
Charles Plessy [Sat, 9 Mar 2013 04:01:18 +0000 (13:01 +0900)]
Changelog entry for the work in progress in #598645.
Guillem Jover [Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:29:05 +0000 (19:29 +0100)]
Delegate deb(5) format description to the man page
The information in this section is in any case not very complete,
and covered already in way more detail by the man page.
Guillem Jover [Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:09:11 +0000 (19:09 +0100)]
Switch appendix section for dpkg-buildpackage into a stub
The section only documents things already present in the man page,
and in cases the documentation is outdated. Just turn it into a stub
pointing to the man page, to avoid renumbering issues.
Charles Plessy [Sun, 24 Feb 2013 03:28:02 +0000 (12:28 +0900)]
Replace appendix sections by stubs.
(Replaces Guillem's patch "Remove appendix sections for dpkg-genchanges,
dpkg-parsechangelog and dpkg-architecture")
Guillem Jover [Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:26:06 +0000 (14:26 +0100)]
Refer to the dpkg man pages for programs not described in the appendices
This will allow to progressively remove specific program sections, that
have been either integrated into the policy or the dpkg documentation.
Charles Plessy [Sun, 16 Sep 2012 23:01:07 +0000 (08:01 +0900)]
Document Debconf's escape capability.
Closes: #671355.
Charles Plessy [Sun, 24 Feb 2013 03:49:42 +0000 (12:49 +0900)]
Changelog for #700574.
Guillem Jover [Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:25:00 +0000 (14:25 +0100)]
Remove outdated mention of dselect documentation
There's no description in the appendices of the dselect access methods.
Charles Plessy [Sun, 6 Jan 2013 13:06:59 +0000 (22:06 +0900)]
Changelog and upgrading-checklist for #697433.
Charles Plessy [Sun, 6 Jan 2013 12:58:49 +0000 (21:58 +0900)]
Description of the Package-List field.
Closes: #697433
Charles Plessy [Sat, 16 Feb 2013 03:48:16 +0000 (12:48 +0900)]
Changelog for #700536
Guillem Jover [Thu, 14 Feb 2013 03:41:05 +0000 (04:41 +0100)]
Update dak reference from old katie name
Closes: #700536
Charles Plessy [Wed, 9 Jan 2013 13:05:55 +0000 (22:05 +0900)]
Updated following the delegation of October 2012.
See: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/10/msg00006.html
Charles Plessy [Sun, 6 Jan 2013 23:47:56 +0000 (08:47 +0900)]
Changelog and upgrading-checklist for #679326
Charles Plessy [Sun, 23 Sep 2012 00:46:19 +0000 (09:46 +0900)]
Policy: Obsolete the DM-Upload-Allowed field.
Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
Closes: #679326
See: http://lists.debian.org/87vcf6lbw4.fsf@deep-thought.43-1.org
Russ Allbery [Thu, 3 Jan 2013 20:57:42 +0000 (12:57 -0800)]
Changelog and upgrading-checklist for #690293
Charles Plessy [Sat, 13 Oct 2012 02:48:46 +0000 (11:48 +0900)]
Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256 are required by dak and therefore mandatory
Closes: #690293
See also: http://bugs.debian.org/478295#73
Russ Allbery [Sat, 3 Nov 2012 22:32:56 +0000 (15:32 -0700)]
Fix typo in 8.6.4
Thanks, Raúl Benencia. (Closes: #691352)
Russ Allbery [Wed, 19 Sep 2012 04:36:25 +0000 (21:36 -0700)]
Finalize 3.9.4.0
Russ Allbery [Mon, 3 Sep 2012 20:12:49 +0000 (13:12 -0700)]
Add changelog and upgrading-checklist for #661816
Russ Allbery [Mon, 3 Sep 2012 20:09:57 +0000 (13:09 -0700)]
Minor wording tweaks to the update-mime change
Based on a message from Guillem Jover.
Charles Plessy [Thu, 1 Mar 2012 13:58:41 +0000 (22:58 +0900)]
Rely on triggers instead of calling update-mime
Closes: 661816
This patch also:
- Removes mention of the MIME policy. This is a leftover from its removal.
- Documents /usr/lib/mime/packages/, and recommends to use binary package
names as a file names.
- Cosmetically changes the emphasis on a "should not".
Russ Allbery [Mon, 3 Sep 2012 19:53:23 +0000 (12:53 -0700)]
Add changelog and upgrading-checklist for #591791
Russ Allbery [Mon, 3 Sep 2012 19:50:39 +0000 (12:50 -0700)]
Move alternative init systems to avoid renumbering
While keeping all the init-related material together would be nice,
it causes section renumbering, which causes other problems. Move it
to the bottom of that chapter. We'll fix this when we rewrite all of
Policy and reorder everything.
Steve Langasek [Mon, 10 Jan 2011 01:58:58 +0000 (19:58 -0600)]
Document generic and upstart-specific init-system requirements
Add a new section on alternative init systems that outlines the
compatibility requirements for both init replacements and packages shipping
upstart jobs. Closes: #591791
Russ Allbery [Mon, 27 Aug 2012 15:30:09 +0000 (08:30 -0700)]
Add changelog and upgrading-checklist for #374029
Russ Allbery [Mon, 27 Aug 2012 15:26:05 +0000 (08:26 -0700)]
Merge branch 'master' into bug345619-rra
Russ Allbery [Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:03:39 +0000 (17:03 -0700)]
Add changelog and upgrading-checklist for #571776
Russ Allbery [Tue, 21 Aug 2012 23:55:13 +0000 (16:55 -0700)]
Merge branch 'master' into bug571776-rra
Charles Plessy [Tue, 21 Aug 2012 23:54:04 +0000 (16:54 -0700)]
Fix incorrect closing tag
Russ Allbery [Mon, 13 Aug 2012 04:29:59 +0000 (21:29 -0700)]
Add changelog for #676561
Roger Leigh [Thu, 7 Jun 2012 19:15:53 +0000 (20:15 +0100)]
Document restrictions on use of /run for wheezy
Russ Allbery [Sun, 12 Aug 2012 23:32:35 +0000 (16:32 -0700)]
Reflect the common case in the shlibs example
Jonathan Nieder [Sun, 12 Aug 2012 23:30:54 +0000 (16:30 -0700)]
symbols/shlibs policy: cosmetic fixes
Use "zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-2~)" in the sample shlibs dependency
field to emphasize the backport-friendly convention described in the
sharedlibs-updates section.
Also correct two small typos --- one sentence is uncapitalized and
another missing a noun --- and rephrase a sentence that describes when
to bump the dependency-version to make it easier to read.
Russ Allbery [Sun, 12 Aug 2012 21:14:23 +0000 (14:14 -0700)]
Further wording changes on top of Jonathan Nieder's work
Add a footnote explaining what a "reasonable" program is. Clarify
the shlibs versioning text. Other minor textual changes for
clarity.
Jonathan Nieder [Sun, 12 Aug 2012 20:43:50 +0000 (13:43 -0700)]
Clarifications to symbols and shlibs policy
subject/verb agreement: s/provide/provides/
Packages with libraries or binaries linking to a shared library must
use symbols or shlibs files to compute their dependencies. Packages
that dlopen() a shared library should do so as well, but since that
is not typical practice and the tools to do that don't exist, it is
not made a policy "must" yet.
The minimal version for a symbol can be bumped after the version of
the package in which the symbol was introduced.
Add a footnote explaining why shlibs files cannot be used for
libraries with unusual sonames.
The shlibs file for a library udeb goes in the corresponding deb.
The library deb corresponding to a udeb is supposed to provide a
shlibs file, rather than consuming (using) one.
Add "for example" when talking about dpkg-shlibdeps -T. This is
just an illustration and not meant to be normative.
If a library is used both directly and indirectly, the direct
dependency still needs to be declared.
Backward-compatibility is defined in terms of what reasonable
programs and libraries need.
In the normal case, symbols files go in dpkg's admindir as package
control files.
wording fix: "dependency on" avoids some of the ambiguity in
"dependency of".
Russ Allbery [Sun, 12 Aug 2012 20:40:55 +0000 (13:40 -0700)]
Merge branch 'master' into bug571776-rra
Russ Allbery [Sun, 12 Aug 2012 20:14:55 +0000 (13:14 -0700)]
Make build-arch and build-indep required targets
Implement the Debian Technical Committee decision in #629385.
Remove the normative documentation of what to do when the targets
aren't provided. Remove the informative footnote saying that
the build daemons don't support this.
Closes: #374029 (among others)
Russ Allbery [Sun, 12 Aug 2012 19:50:07 +0000 (12:50 -0700)]
Add changelog and upgrading-checklist for #670429
Charles Plessy [Sat, 14 Jul 2012 03:52:09 +0000 (12:52 +0900)]
Add 'tasks' section
This also arranged the list as one name per line, in plain text,
alphabetically sorted, for better tracking.
Closes: #670429
Russ Allbery [Sun, 12 Aug 2012 19:44:26 +0000 (12:44 -0700)]
Add changelog and upgrading-checklist for #654958
Charles Plessy [Sat, 7 Jan 2012 06:00:30 +0000 (15:00 +0900)]
Document VCS fields
Uses Developers's Reference §6.2.5 for inspiration.
Closes: #654958
[jrnieder@gmail.com:
- declared repositories should be publicly accessible
- Vcs-Browser should point to a webapp
- Vcs-<system> should use the version control system's conventional syntax
- if multiple branches are used for packaging (e.g., "stable",
"testing", "sid"), any one of them will do
- for Vcs-Git, "-b <branch>" can be omitted when the intended branch is the
default branch
- list some Vcs-<foo> fields by name in the lists in §5.2 and §5.4
- declared repositories track development of the Debian source
package, not just the upstream code
- Vcs-Browser can be a web interface using any protocol (e.g., HTTPS
is fine)
- picking a good branch is optional
Thanks to Russ Allbery for several improvements to the text.]
Russ Allbery [Sun, 12 Aug 2012 19:35:39 +0000 (12:35 -0700)]
Add changelog and upgrading-checklist for #641153
Charles Plessy [Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:23:19 +0000 (20:23 +0100)]
Document the Built-Using field
Thanks to Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>.
Closes: #641153
[jrnieder@gmail.com: with spelling fixes from Jakub Wilk]
Russ Allbery [Sun, 18 Mar 2012 00:10:09 +0000 (17:10 -0700)]
Prohibit deprecated < and > relations
Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Closes: #663918
Also minorly reword this section for clarity.
Russ Allbery [Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:31:41 +0000 (16:31 -0700)]
All copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8
Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
Closes: #661933
Russ Allbery [Sat, 17 Mar 2012 18:04:14 +0000 (11:04 -0700)]
Further symbols wording fixes from Charles Plessy
Retain the dpkg-shlibdeps section in the appendix as a stub pointing
to the main page so that we don't renumber subsequent sections. Add
more explanation for why dependencies change for each build of a
binary package. Combine the dpkg-shlibdeps instructions somewhat and
mention that debian/substvars is only a default.
Russ Allbery [Sat, 17 Mar 2012 17:41:41 +0000 (10:41 -0700)]
Substantial revision to the new symbols draft
Pull out lots of information that's shared between symbols and shlibs
into new sections directly under shared library dependencies. Make
both symbols and shlibs subsections of that section. Flesh out the
documentation of how to choose between symbols and shlibs and what the
differences in the systems are.
Document that C++ libraries may be better off with shlibs and don't
deprecate shlibs quite as much.
Move the information on how to determine the shared library soversion
to the runtime shared library section where it's now primarily used,
and reference it in the shlibs section.
Russ Allbery [Sat, 17 Mar 2012 15:35:35 +0000 (08:35 -0700)]
Merge branch 'master' into bug571776-rra
Russ Allbery [Sun, 4 Mar 2012 23:02:16 +0000 (15:02 -0800)]
Update release date of package
Russ Allbery [Sun, 4 Mar 2012 23:01:53 +0000 (15:01 -0800)]
Collapse multiple copyright comments into one
Russ Allbery [Sun, 4 Mar 2012 23:00:57 +0000 (15:00 -0800)]
Expand package long description to include all documents
Russ Allbery [Sun, 4 Mar 2012 22:49:28 +0000 (14:49 -0800)]
Finalize changes for 3.9.3.1
Russ Allbery [Sat, 3 Mar 2012 03:21:09 +0000 (19:21 -0800)]
Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0
* Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0, and in the process
add the license information for the documents other than Policy itself
and the FHS. Note the implication of the GPL source code requirement
for distributing generated versions of the Policy documents.
Russ Allbery [Sat, 3 Mar 2012 02:41:34 +0000 (18:41 -0800)]
Add Policy version to DocBook subdocuments, fix whitespace
* Embed the Debian Policy version and build date in the debconf
specification and the copyright-format document. We'll make
non-normative changes without updating other version numbers, and it's
good to know which version one is looking at.
* Fix some whitespace issues in the debconf specification articleinfo.
Russ Allbery [Sat, 3 Mar 2012 02:03:10 +0000 (18:03 -0800)]
Fix copyright-format license to not reference copyright notice
* Fix the legal notice in copyright-format to not refer to a nonexistent
copyright notice.
Russ Allbery [Mon, 27 Feb 2012 23:50:30 +0000 (15:50 -0800)]
Further tweaking of the language around checking shell scripts
Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for the improvement.
Russ Allbery [Mon, 27 Feb 2012 05:02:00 +0000 (21:02 -0800)]
Update dpkg-buildpackage documentation to mention fakeroot
* Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to
reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam
Morris. (Closes: #658009)
Russ Allbery [Mon, 27 Feb 2012 04:53:41 +0000 (20:53 -0800)]
Improve wording of DM-Upload-Allowed description
* Clearly state that "yes" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed
and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)
Russ Allbery [Mon, 27 Feb 2012 04:34:04 +0000 (20:34 -0800)]
Clarify dependency relationships between build, build-{arch,indep}
* Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided
(currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist
or perform the equivalent actions. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some
of the wording. (Closes: #601839)
Russ Allbery [Mon, 27 Feb 2012 04:11:37 +0000 (20:11 -0800)]
Field names may not contain spaces
* Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not
contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)
Russ Allbery [Mon, 27 Feb 2012 03:59:56 +0000 (19:59 -0800)]
Make wording about following the FHS less ambiguous
* Remove the ambiguous word "installed" when requiring that the location
of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)
Russ Allbery [Mon, 27 Feb 2012 03:47:49 +0000 (19:47 -0800)]
Suggest checkbashisms or posh rather than dash to check scripts
* Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking
whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending
dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)
Russ Allbery [Mon, 27 Feb 2012 03:25:36 +0000 (19:25 -0800)]
Additional wording clarifications to copyright-format 1.0
* Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.
Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)
and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and
Ben Finney.
Russ Allbery [Mon, 27 Feb 2012 01:09:18 +0000 (17:09 -0800)]
Fix cross reference to control field syntax
* Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source
package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)
Russ Allbery [Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:53:23 +0000 (16:53 -0800)]
Install copyright-format source without a version
* Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
the current version.
Russ Allbery [Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:44:04 +0000 (16:44 -0800)]
Don't close 639663 (upgrading checklist links)
This bug also involves linking the relevant sections from the
checklist to Policy, which isn't handled yet.
Russ Allbery [Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:32:39 +0000 (16:32 -0800)]
Update .gitignore
Russ Allbery [Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:29:38 +0000 (16:29 -0800)]
Install HTML upgrading-checklist in policy.html directory
* Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #639663)
For right now, this is done with a bit of a hack to copy the file into
the appropriate directory and to turn the one-page HTML version of it
into a symlink inside the constructed package.
The clean solution will be to make the upgrading checklist an appendix
of Policy, which may be done as part of a DocBook conversion.
Russ Allbery [Sun, 26 Feb 2012 23:50:59 +0000 (15:50 -0800)]
General cleanup of debian/rules
* Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
maintainability.
Charles Plessy [Sun, 26 Feb 2012 10:24:38 +0000 (19:24 +0900)]
Remove unused debian-policy:Version substitution variable
Russ Allbery [Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:18:48 +0000 (20:18 -0800)]
Add missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog
Russ Allbery [Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:07:58 +0000 (20:07 -0800)]
Fix mistaken word choice in 3.9.3 upgrading-checklist
* Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
Russ Allbery [Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:40:49 +0000 (19:40 -0800)]
Finalize changes for 3.9.3.0
Some wording tweaks for the upgrading-checklist as well, and the
changelog entry for virtual-package-names-list.
Russ Allbery [Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:44:39 +0000 (13:44 -0800)]
Reference copyright-format from Debian Policy
Russ Allbery [Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:18:47 +0000 (13:18 -0800)]
Add changelog for the changes for copyright-format publication
Charles Plessy [Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:20:36 +0000 (22:20 +0900)]
Publish copyright format specification version 1.0 (DEP 5)
Russ Allbery [Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:10:28 +0000 (13:10 -0800)]
Add changelog for copyright-format changes
Russ Allbery [Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:07:50 +0000 (13:07 -0800)]
Standardize on en_GB spelling
Russ Allbery [Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:54:39 +0000 (12:54 -0800)]
Copyright format reformatting
Reformat parts of the copyright format standard to avoid lines longer
than 79 characters and to fix some incorrect indentation.
Russ Allbery [Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:36:00 +0000 (12:36 -0800)]
General editing pass for the copyright format specification
Add a pointer to DEP-5 in the synopsis and change the verb tense
to present from imperative. Rephrase the introduction to talk about
this document as a specification rather than a proposal.
Explicitly mention Files: * as the way to write a single files
paragraph that covers the entire package.
Mention after one of the examples that the two paragraphs for files
with the same license but different copyright holders could be combined
at the discretion of the document author.
Give the complete correct Format field for the current version of the
document in the description of that field.
Add more explanation for how Disclaimer is used.
Say explicitly that more general files paragraphs should be given
first, followed by more specific overrides.
Update the license list to note that "Universal" is removed from the
version of CC0 when forming the short name, to list the new versions
of the GFDL, and to be more explicit about when to use GFDL-NIV.
Rewording and rephrasing in various places to hopefully make the
text flow better, read more smoothly, and be more idiomatic.
Add multiple additional in-line examples, particularly around the
Files patterns and the formation of license short names.
Charles Plessy [Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:19:05 +0000 (10:19 -0800)]
DEP-5 updates from further debian-project discussion
Clarify that this document does not supersede or modify the
requirements in Policy and that use of the specification is
optional. Note that a single Files paragraph can apply to the
whole package (rather than using the "all files" wording) and
that only the license and copyright information required by
the Debian archive has to be listed.
Clarify the wording of stand-alone license paragraphs to be
clear that they can be used with exceptions.
Some wording improvements, including making the attributes
listed after the fields lowercase. Fix a few links and the
official keyword of the BSD-3-clause license in some examples.
Add a Version 1.0 subtitle.
Russ Allbery [Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:01:04 +0000 (10:01 -0800)]
Update copyright-format to match the current DEP-5 website text
This addresses multiple issues, clarifications, and reformatting
done as part of the DEP process after the initial import of the
document into the Debian Policy repository.
Russ Allbery [Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:07:41 +0000 (12:07 -0800)]
Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout
This is still a quite-ugly hack, but at least it works.
Bill Allombert [Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:53:39 +0000 (17:53 +0100)]
Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
Closes: #578421
Charles Plessy [Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:21:12 +0000 (11:21 +0900)]
Correct syntax error by closing SGML tag.
Russ Allbery [Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:11:37 +0000 (15:11 -0800)]
Fix formatting of the symbols file
Alternative dependencies and metadata fields should not be indented
by a space.
Russ Allbery [Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:06:42 +0000 (10:06 -0800)]
Merge branch 'master' into bug571776-rra
Russ Allbery [Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:03:07 +0000 (10:03 -0800)]
Improvements and simplifications of symbols/shlibs rewrite
Based on review by Raphaël Hertzog.
Russ Allbery [Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:24:13 +0000 (09:24 -0800)]
Add changelog and upgrading-checklist for #498300
Russ Allbery [Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:21:28 +0000 (09:21 -0800)]
Merge branch 'master' into bug498300-rra
Russ Allbery [Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:19:01 +0000 (09:19 -0800)]
Changelog and upgrading-checklist for #620870
Russ Allbery [Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:55:35 +0000 (08:55 -0800)]
Merge branch 'master' into bug620870-rra
Russ Allbery [Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:30:35 +0000 (17:30 -0800)]
Fix typo in version numbers in dpkg-divert example
* Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
Slavko.
Russ Allbery [Sun, 8 Jan 2012 16:56:44 +0000 (08:56 -0800)]
Fix typo (thanks, Niels Thykier)
Stefano Zacchiroli [Sat, 7 Jan 2012 16:33:31 +0000 (08:33 -0800)]
Dependency architecture restrictions must be non-empty
An empty list of architectures doesn't make sense and has an
ambiguous meaning, so just make it a syntax error.
Closes: #498300
Russ Allbery [Thu, 5 Jan 2012 17:23:32 +0000 (09:23 -0800)]
List all dependency fields packages in main may not use with non-main
* Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
addresses #587279.
Russ Allbery [Mon, 2 Jan 2012 21:44:41 +0000 (13:44 -0800)]
First draft of symbols documentation
Based heavily on the existing shlibs section and on the
deb-symbols(5) manual page. The symbols section takes over as
the default recommendation and shlibs moves one section later.
Also includes more information about when to change the minimal
version in the symbols file.
Russ Allbery [Mon, 2 Jan 2012 18:24:06 +0000 (10:24 -0800)]
Remove the "should" to use /run instead of /var/run
This requires a dependency on a newer initscripts and has cross-
distribution compatibility problems, so is probably premature at
this point.