Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 07:56:33 +0000 (07:56 +0000)]
Synchronized with patch 11 from Manojs tree
Synchronized with patch 11 from Manojs tree
Patches applied:
* srivasta@debian.org--etch/debian-policy--devel--3.0--patch-11
re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain, put in a layer of abstractions.
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 07:54:49 +0000 (07:54 +0000)]
Synchronized with patch 8 from Manojs tree
Synchronized with patch 8 from Manojs tree
Patches applied:
* srivasta@debian.org--etch/debian-policy--devel--3.0--patch-8
Ugraded to version from the skeleton scripts, which are more robust, and are more informative to people trying to base their own scripts on these. Did I mention more robust?
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:33:04 +0000 (05:33 +0000)]
* Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
Author: srivasta
Date: 2002/03/14 18:17:48
* Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
* ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
* Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
* Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
* Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
* fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
* Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
* Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
* Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
* While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
* Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
* Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
* Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:32:34 +0000 (05:32 +0000)]
* Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list
Author: srivasta
Date: 2001/07/25 03:26:48
* Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
medium, high, emergency.
* Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
* [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
* [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
closes: Bug#102199
* [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
* Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
* [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
closes: Bug#100631
* [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
* The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
ther information provided. closes: Bug#105535
* Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
closes: Bug#105538
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:26:53 +0000 (05:26 +0000)]
* Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
Author: jdg
Date: 2001/05/24 09:48:12
* Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
system closes: Bug#91249
* Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
* Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
* Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
* OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
* The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
* The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
* Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
* Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
* Finish cleaning up chapter 12
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:26:28 +0000 (05:26 +0000)]
* Done chapter 10 now
Author: jdg
Date: 2001/05/08 00:21:13
* Done chapter 10 now
* debiandoc-sgml version 1.1.47 fixes most of the issues, so Text.pm
can be removed again
* Versioned build-depends for this
* Merged changes to LaTeX.pm
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:12:39 +0000 (05:12 +0000)]
* Added doc-base support for all of the HTML docs in the package
Author: jdg
Date: 2001/05/02 00:26:25
* Added doc-base support for all of the HTML docs in the package
* Added a few more byhand files and rewrote chunks of debian/rules
* I'm pretty sure it won't work first time; it will need some testing
first! ;-)
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:12:29 +0000 (05:12 +0000)]
* Really install the FHS HTML version this time
Author: jdg
Date: 2001/05/01 23:02:14
* Really install the FHS HTML version this time
* More care over compression of doc files (don't want to compress .html)
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:12:19 +0000 (05:12 +0000)]
* Change names of policy maintainers (finish the job)
Author: jdg
Date: 2001/04/30 21:08:36
* Change names of policy maintainers (finish the job)
* Tiny language improvements to perl-policy
* Started work on chapter 9
* Major improvements to upgrading-checklist
* Corrections to changelog (a non-sensical entry had been
inadvertantly introduced)
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:12:09 +0000 (05:12 +0000)]
* Finished updates to chapter 7
Author: jdg
Date: 2001/04/30 12:58:53
* Finished updates to chapter 7
* Scrapped chapter 8 (but preserved so that the rest of policy doesn't
change its numbering)
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:11:52 +0000 (05:11 +0000)]
* [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes
Author: srivasta
Date: 2001/04/28 18:36:54
* [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
* [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
* Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
Julian's fixes:
* Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
* Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
closes: Bug#86436
* Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
closes: Bug#87233
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:11:09 +0000 (05:11 +0000)]
* Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
Author: srivasta
Date: 2001/04/15 18:40:31
* Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
* Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
* Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
package for the time being
* Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
* Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
* Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
* Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
* Correct typos etc. in policy-process
* Rename all .text files as .txt
* Fixed the to to typo in policy. closes: Bug#87007
* Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
* [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
Build-Depends arch syntax
* [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
configuration files
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:11:03 +0000 (05:11 +0000)]
* Typos in various documents
Author: jdg
Date: 2001/04/13 00:10:17
* Typos in various documents
* Allow both "[PROPOSAL] ..." and "[PROPOSED] ..." titles in bug
reports (which is current practice)
* Package now generates .txt files instead of .text files
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:10:49 +0000 (05:10 +0000)]
* Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
Author: jdg
Date: 2001/04/11 21:40:23
* Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
* Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
* Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
* Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
Also lots of miscellaneous wording etc. improvements: start -> section
2.2, as discussed recently on -policy.
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:10:04 +0000 (05:10 +0000)]
* Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
Author: jdg
Date: 2001/02/15 10:57:52
* Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
* No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
* Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
minor version number for this
* Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
* Clarify error conditions for package installation
(Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
* Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
* Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:09:55 +0000 (05:09 +0000)]
* Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
Author: jdg
Date: 2001/02/13 16:21:14
* Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:09:39 +0000 (05:09 +0000)]
* Removed defunct virtual package names (closes
Author: jdg
Date: 2001/02/13 12:03:57
* Removed defunct virtual package names (closes: #84641)
* Changed postrm rmdir example so that it survives errors better
(suggested on -policy list)
* Typo cpu -> CPU
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:09:24 +0000 (05:09 +0000)]
* There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
Author: srivasta
Date: 2001/01/29 04:15:26
* There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
* More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
<cts@nikocity.de>
* Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
closes: Bug#83924
* Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
* Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
* [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
* Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
* document the fact that x font utilities have moved to the package
xutils, closes: Bug#82966
* Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
* Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
* Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
* Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
* Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
closes: Bug#80506
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