Russ Allbery [Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:07:18 +0000 (10:07 -0700)]
Further revisions to the Format update
Drop historical information about the version changes in .changes
files. It doesn't seem useful at this point. Specify the format
of Format for source packages separately since referring to the
version format with exceptions and additions is more confusing and
it's not really a version in the same sense. Add the full list of
supported source package formats in a footnote. Add a bit more
explanation for how the source package format is used.
Charles Plessy [Sat, 29 May 2010 03:49:34 +0000 (12:49 +0900)]
Clarification of the Format field in control files -- patch for #547272.
The Format field has a different meaning for Debian source control files and
Debian changes files. This patch :
- documents the use and syntax of the Format field for these two types
of control files.
- Specifies the format 1.8 of Debian changes files, adds descriptions for
the Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256 files, and provides some history
for the Closes, Changed-By and Maintainer fields.
Russ Allbery [Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:41:46 +0000 (09:41 -0700)]
Bump revision for the next release
Russ Allbery [Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:40:38 +0000 (09:40 -0700)]
Add changelog and upgrading-checklist for #578854
Russ Allbery [Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:33:28 +0000 (09:33 -0700)]
Merge branch 'master' into bug578854-rra
Russ Allbery [Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:30:46 +0000 (09:30 -0700)]
Add bug closer for SETTITLE
Russ Allbery [Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:29:32 +0000 (09:29 -0700)]
Document debconf SETTITLE command
Document the SETTITLE command in the debconf policy. Inclusion of this
command should not pose any problems as it has been supported since 2003
(debconf version 1.3.22).
Patch from Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>.
Russ Allbery [Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:30:01 +0000 (11:30 -0700)]
Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in Policy wording
* Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
"Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
(Closes: #586163)
Russ Allbery [Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:22:04 +0000 (11:22 -0700)]
Fix various wording problems with the new Breaks/Conflicts sections
Russ Allbery [Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:19:15 +0000 (11:19 -0700)]
Fix a missing word in Breaks
Russ Allbery [Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:02:21 +0000 (11:02 -0700)]
Merge branch 'master' into bug578854-rra
Russ Allbery [Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:01:58 +0000 (11:01 -0700)]
Close the <qref> tag for f-Checksums
Russ Allbery [Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:00:04 +0000 (11:00 -0700)]
Significantly rework the discussion of Breaks and Conflicts
Recommend Breaks over Conflicts for most purposes. List the places
Breaks should be used and the places Conflicts should be used. Add
Breaks to the example in Replaces, and add a footnote explaining
why Breaks is normally required along with Replaces when files are
moving between packages. Add additional discussion of conflicting
with a virtual package.
Russ Allbery [Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:37:45 +0000 (12:37 -0700)]
Merge branch 'master' into bug575639-rra
Conflicts:
debian/changelog
Russ Allbery [Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:36:39 +0000 (12:36 -0700)]
Add changelog and upgrading-checklist for #575639
Russ Allbery [Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:51:57 +0000 (10:51 -0700)]
Fix some minor (pre-existing) Maintainer and Uploaders syntax
Terminate an HTML entity and be clearer about the cross-reference
to the Maintainer field in the Uploaders field.
Russ Allbery [Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:47:59 +0000 (10:47 -0700)]
Add changelog and upgrading-checklist for #347581
Russ Allbery [Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:44:28 +0000 (10:44 -0700)]
Merge branch 'master' into bug347581-rra
Russ Allbery [Sun, 13 Jun 2010 20:14:43 +0000 (13:14 -0700)]
Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
The syntax of Maintainer is a must, not a should. The comma
separator in Uploaders is a must, not a should. Now allow people
to use multi-line Uploaders fields freely. Be explicit that the
Changed-By field has the same syntax as Maintainer and be clearer
about what identity goes here.
Russ Allbery [Sun, 13 Jun 2010 19:36:43 +0000 (12:36 -0700)]
Changelog and upgrading-checklist for #555978
Russ Allbery [Sun, 13 Jun 2010 19:33:02 +0000 (12:33 -0700)]
Merge branch 'master' into bug555978-rra
Russ Allbery [Sun, 13 Jun 2010 19:30:48 +0000 (12:30 -0700)]
Merge branch 'master' into bug478295-rra
Russ Allbery [Sun, 13 Jun 2010 19:30:38 +0000 (12:30 -0700)]
Add changelog and upgrading-checklist for #478295
Russ Allbery [Sat, 12 Jun 2010 23:18:00 +0000 (16:18 -0700)]
Fix pluralization error in Checksums-* description
Russ Allbery [Sat, 12 Jun 2010 22:23:31 +0000 (15:23 -0700)]
Fix typo (in BSD license footnote)
Russ Allbery [Sat, 12 Jun 2010 20:26:28 +0000 (13:26 -0700)]
Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
Add documentation for the Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256 fields
and mark them as recommended for both source and changes files. Also
reorder the field listing in source and changes files to match the
order in which dpkg-dev writes the fields.
Russ Allbery [Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:57:40 +0000 (12:57 -0700)]
Relax requirement that library development files be in one package
Say instead that installing the library development package must
result in installation of all the required files, which allows for
further splits with appropriate Depends.
Russ Allbery [Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:25:02 +0000 (12:25 -0700)]
Clarify the wording about which build dependencies must be satisfied
* Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
Russ Allbery [Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:51:42 +0000 (11:51 -0700)]
Explicitly say that obsolete config files may be removed
* Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
Russ Allbery [Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:39:42 +0000 (11:39 -0700)]
Add an example of Replaces for a package split
* Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
Russ Allbery [Sat, 12 Jun 2010 17:49:45 +0000 (10:49 -0700)]
Changelog and upgrading-checklist information for Bug#284340
Russ Allbery [Sat, 12 Jun 2010 17:43:32 +0000 (10:43 -0700)]
Wording improvement for forbidding duplicate fields
Russ Allbery [Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:56:16 +0000 (09:56 -0700)]
Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
Bug#555978.
Russ Allbery [Thu, 10 Jun 2010 23:55:23 +0000 (16:55 -0700)]
Merge branch 'master' into bug284340-rra
Russ Allbery [Thu, 10 Jun 2010 23:54:48 +0000 (16:54 -0700)]
Some additional tweaks to the license count script
Also look for LPPL version 1.3a and for any version of the license.
Be case-insensitive when looking for the Artistic 2.0 license.
Russ Allbery [Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:10:26 +0000 (13:10 -0700)]
Do not tell packagers to reference /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
Remove the University of California BSD license from the list of
licenses that should be represented by references to
/usr/share/common-licenses and explain in the footnote why packages
should copy the license text instead.
Part of the resolution of Bug#284340.
Russ Allbery [Wed, 9 Jun 2010 18:34:41 +0000 (11:34 -0700)]
Some additional fixes to the license classification script
Add counts for any version of the GFDL, GPL, or LGPL. Clarify which
version of the LaTeX PPL this is checking. Add a total package count
to the bottom.
Russ Allbery [Wed, 9 Jun 2010 18:25:25 +0000 (11:25 -0700)]
Add a script to count license usage in Debian
Add tools/license-count, which takes the path to a Lintian lab and
counts license usage in Debian using regular expression matches
against the text of the debian/copyright file.
Russ Allbery [Mon, 7 Jun 2010 17:16:39 +0000 (10:16 -0700)]
Fix typo in footnote about help2man
Russ Allbery [Fri, 4 Jun 2010 16:57:37 +0000 (09:57 -0700)]
Minor editing, changelog, and upgrading-checklist for #569174
Charles Plessy [Tue, 1 Jun 2010 01:27:39 +0000 (10:27 +0900)]
Specification of date format -- bug #569174.
RFC 822 dates use only two digits for the years, but Debian changelogs
described by this paragraph (§4.4 in Policy 3.8.4) use four digits.
This patch replaces the reference to the RFC 822 by a specification that is
compatible with its successors, RFC 2822 and RFC 5322, but does not use their
full range of options.
Russ Allbery [Fri, 4 Jun 2010 16:43:00 +0000 (09:43 -0700)]
Reletter Process and update HTML style for *.org files
Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
README.html. (Closes: #584521)
Russ Allbery [Fri, 4 Jun 2010 16:24:20 +0000 (09:24 -0700)]
Perl: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
Packages using Makefile.PL should use DESTDIR rather than PREFIX
to install into the package staging area. PREFIX only worked due
to a Debian-local patch.
Russ Allbery [Fri, 4 Jun 2010 05:55:51 +0000 (22:55 -0700)]
Move silly version ordering example to a footnote
Closes: #560839
Russ Allbery [Fri, 4 Jun 2010 05:44:14 +0000 (22:44 -0700)]
Remove footnote listing all known architectures
Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
Russ Allbery [Fri, 4 Jun 2010 05:33:36 +0000 (22:33 -0700)]
Add changelog and upgrading-checklist for Bug#224509
Russ Allbery [Fri, 4 Jun 2010 05:27:56 +0000 (22:27 -0700)]
Merge branch 'master' into bug224509-rra
Russ Allbery [Fri, 4 Jun 2010 05:21:46 +0000 (22:21 -0700)]
Add changelog and upgrading-checklist entries for Bug#530687
Russ Allbery [Fri, 4 Jun 2010 05:20:44 +0000 (22:20 -0700)]
Move Architecture Wildcards to a subsection
Make Architecture Wildcards a subsection of Architecture specification
strings so that we don't renumber all the subsequent sections (and
because it seems to make slightly more sense).
Russ Allbery [Fri, 4 Jun 2010 05:12:39 +0000 (22:12 -0700)]
The architecture value "any" may not be combined with others
Adjust the wording for architecture wildcards to reflect that dpkg
requires "any" be alone if it is used.
Russ Allbery [Fri, 4 Jun 2010 05:10:21 +0000 (22:10 -0700)]
Merge branch 'master' into bug530687-rra
Russ Allbery [Thu, 3 Jun 2010 17:06:08 +0000 (10:06 -0700)]
Fix SGML error in upgrading-checklist entry for init.d scripts
Russ Allbery [Thu, 3 Jun 2010 17:04:11 +0000 (10:04 -0700)]
Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
Perl now provides perlapi-<abiversion> where <abiversion> may be
more than just the version of Perl. Packages must update their
dependencies accordingly, using $Config{debian_abi} to form the
package dependency if set and falling back on $Config{version}
otherwise.
Russ Allbery [Thu, 3 Jun 2010 16:51:52 +0000 (09:51 -0700)]
Rephrase architecture wildcard description somewhat
Reorganize and rephrase the description of architecture wildcards
to combine related paragraphs and to ensure consistency of wording
between the source control section and the *.dsc section.
Russ Allbery [Thu, 3 Jun 2010 16:44:53 +0000 (09:44 -0700)]
Remove some extraneous information about architecture wildcards
Remove some details in footnotes that are internal implementation
details or just confusing and reword somewhat based on feedback from
Guillem Jover.
Russ Allbery [Thu, 3 Jun 2010 16:34:56 +0000 (09:34 -0700)]
Merge branch 'master' into bug530687-rra
Russ Allbery [Thu, 3 Jun 2010 16:31:35 +0000 (09:31 -0700)]
Allow abort if a required prompt can't be answered
Allow, but caution against, maintainer scripts to abort if a required
prompt has no reasonable default and there is no controlling terminal.
Russ Allbery [Thu, 3 Jun 2010 16:26:14 +0000 (09:26 -0700)]
Merge branch 'master' into bug224509-rra
Russ Allbery [Thu, 3 Jun 2010 16:23:48 +0000 (09:23 -0700)]
Add changelog and upgrading checklist for Bug#562506
Russ Allbery [Thu, 3 Jun 2010 16:19:41 +0000 (09:19 -0700)]
Merge branch 'master' into bug562506-rra
Russ Allbery [Wed, 2 Jun 2010 17:05:17 +0000 (10:05 -0700)]
Fix additional typo in architecture wildcards
Found by Cyril Brulebois.
Russ Allbery [Wed, 2 Jun 2010 17:04:50 +0000 (10:04 -0700)]
Merge branch 'master' into bug530687-rra
Russ Allbery [Wed, 2 Jun 2010 17:04:22 +0000 (10:04 -0700)]
Ignore upgrading-checklist.html
Russ Allbery [Wed, 2 Jun 2010 17:02:43 +0000 (10:02 -0700)]
Document debian-installer section and link to section list
Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
Russ Allbery [Wed, 2 Jun 2010 16:53:15 +0000 (09:53 -0700)]
Clarify Perl Policy about essentialness of perl-base
Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
Russ Allbery [Wed, 2 Jun 2010 16:46:03 +0000 (09:46 -0700)]
Remove obsolete footnote comment about dpkg-statoverride
Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
Russ Allbery [Wed, 2 Jun 2010 16:37:39 +0000 (09:37 -0700)]
Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats
Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
Russ Allbery [Tue, 1 Jun 2010 22:55:05 +0000 (15:55 -0700)]
Merge branch 'master' into bug562506-rra
Russ Allbery [Tue, 1 Jun 2010 22:51:25 +0000 (15:51 -0700)]
Merge branch 'master' into bug224509-rra
Russ Allbery [Tue, 1 Jun 2010 22:51:25 +0000 (15:51 -0700)]
Merge branch 'master' into bug530687-rra
Russ Allbery [Tue, 1 Jun 2010 22:47:48 +0000 (15:47 -0700)]
Further fixes to the architecture wildcard patch
Based on feedback from Kurt Roeckx. Be explicit about what happens with
*.dsc and *.changes files, reorder the discussion somewhat, and remove
some duplicate text.
Russ Allbery [Tue, 1 Jun 2010 22:42:18 +0000 (15:42 -0700)]
Merge branch 'master' into bug530687-rra
Bill Allombert [Tue, 1 Jun 2010 18:37:25 +0000 (20:37 +0200)]
Extend UID range of user accounts
Extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
ranges. Proposed by Santiago Vila. Closes: #582495
Russ Allbery [Tue, 1 Jun 2010 17:40:41 +0000 (10:40 -0700)]
Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
Mention init.d scripts as a special exception from the normal advise
to always use set -e in all shell scripts, and add a new paragraph to
the section on init.d scripts advising caution in using set -e and
explaining some of the issues.
Russ Allbery [Mon, 31 May 2010 18:38:49 +0000 (11:38 -0700)]
Further architecture wildcard wording clarifications
Call out "all" specifically in more places and fix some grammatical
and wording issues from multiple editings.
Bill Allombert [Thu, 20 May 2010 21:05:53 +0000 (23:05 +0200)]
Replace 'copyright' by 'copyright information'.
Proposed by Jonathan Nieder. Closes: #566220
Bill Allombert [Thu, 20 May 2010 21:05:53 +0000 (23:05 +0200)]
Replace 'copyright' by 'copyright information'.
Proposed by Jonathan Nieder. Closes: #566220
Russ Allbery [Mon, 31 May 2010 17:16:12 +0000 (10:16 -0700)]
Whitespace fixes in architecture wildcard paragraph
Russ Allbery [Mon, 31 May 2010 17:11:43 +0000 (10:11 -0700)]
Treat any as just another architecture wildcard
Now that we describe architecture wildcards, any is just another
wildcard. This mostly reverts to the state of Manoj's previous
wording proposal but also updates the list of possible values at
the start of the Architecture section.
Russ Allbery [Mon, 31 May 2010 17:04:17 +0000 (10:04 -0700)]
Additional wording improvements for arch wildcards
Keep the previous wording discussing use of any and all in the
Architecture control field. Try to further clarify how wildcard
matching is done to decide whether a binary package is built on the
current architecture. Explain how the first component of the
Debian architecture triplet is derived.
Russ Allbery [Mon, 31 May 2010 16:34:44 +0000 (09:34 -0700)]
Merge branch 'master' into bug530687-rra
Russ Allbery [Mon, 31 May 2010 16:17:53 +0000 (09:17 -0700)]
Add changelog entry for #442134
Russ Allbery [Mon, 31 May 2010 16:15:05 +0000 (09:15 -0700)]
Correct punctuation pointed out by Guillem Jover
Uniformly use double quotes around references to "Half-Installed" or
"Half-Configured".
Russ Allbery [Mon, 31 May 2010 16:11:15 +0000 (09:11 -0700)]
Merge branch 'master' into bug442134-srivasta
Bill Allombert [Fri, 21 May 2010 19:16:09 +0000 (21:16 +0200)]
Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
Closes: #558430
Bill Allombert [Thu, 20 May 2010 22:39:47 +0000 (00:39 +0200)]
Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml
(Closes: #567845)
Bill Allombert [Thu, 20 May 2010 22:35:32 +0000 (00:35 +0200)]
Merge branch 'master' into bug567845-ballombe
Colin Watson [Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:50:11 +0000 (17:50 +0000)]
Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
Bill Allombert [Tue, 9 Feb 2010 23:38:30 +0000 (00:38 +0100)]
Convert upgrading-checklist.org to debiandoc-sgml.
Bill Allombert [Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:18:26 +0000 (21:18 +0100)]
Bump Standard-Version to 3.8.4
Bill Allombert [Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:15:09 +0000 (21:15 +0100)]
Finalize changelog for release.
Bill Allombert [Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:44:11 +0000 (13:44 +0100)]
Brace filenames with ~...~
This avoids /.../ to be intepreted as italic.
Bill Allombert [Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:43:39 +0000 (21:43 +0100)]
Clean up references in upgrading-checklist.
The old upgrading-checklist assumed references were after the message instead
of before. Adjust to reflect that.
Fix /etc/init.d/*SK]* to /etc/init.d/[SK]*.
Bill Allombert [Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:08:58 +0000 (21:08 +0100)]
Replace < by < and > by >
Bill Allombert [Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:20:14 +0000 (19:20 +0100)]
Fix typo Clarigy -> Clarify.
Russ Allbery [Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:32:14 +0000 (09:32 -0800)]
Set release date of the upgrading checklist for 3.8.4
Manoj Srivastava [Mon, 7 Dec 2009 07:18:37 +0000 (01:18 -0600)]
Added changelog for the cron-daemon package addition
Signed-off-by: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
Signed-off-by: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
Manoj Srivastava [Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:50:11 +0000 (21:50 -0600)]
[bug442134-srivasta]: Flip back and revert to using Half-Configured state
Since this is what dpkg has been revamped to do.
Signed-off-by: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
Manoj Srivastava [Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:33:13 +0000 (01:33 -0600)]
New virtual package: cron-daemon
Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
- Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
- Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
- Correct support of /etc/crontab
- Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
ranges, step values
- Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
Signed-off-by: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
Signed-off-by: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
Manoj Srivastava [Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:32:10 +0000 (00:32 -0600)]
Use the "Failed-Config" state instead of the synonymous halfconfigured
These terms are synonyms. dpkg and dselect use halfconfigured
internally and Failed-config when talking to the user. This patch
ensures that policy uses the same term as dpkg does when talking to
the user ("Failed-Config") for consistency.
Signed-off-by: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>