Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:09:22 +0000 (05:09 +0000)]
* There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
Author: srivasta
Date: 2001/01/29 04:04:59
* 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
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:09:07 +0000 (05:09 +0000)]
* The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
Author: srivasta
Date: 2001/01/18 07:44:41
* The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
this version.
* Document the Enhances relationship
* Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
* Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
policy. closes: Bug#53496
* Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
closes: Bug#53700
* Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
* We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
* makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
* Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
closes: Bug#59403
* Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
* init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
* Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:08:53 +0000 (05:08 +0000)]
* Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
Author: srivasta
Date: 2001/01/17 05:57:37
* Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
* Incorporate the packaging manual. The minimal change in version number
i because I suspect that this version is going to be buggy.
closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
* Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
* Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
* Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
* Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
* Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
* [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
* Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
closes: Bug#77404
* Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:08:40 +0000 (05:08 +0000)]
* [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
Author: srivasta
Date: 2000/08/24 07:08:37
* [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
* [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
policy. closes: Bug#64437
* [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
* [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
* [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
* [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
* [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
* Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
* proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
* proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
* new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
* [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
* [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
* the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
* [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
* [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
* [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
* [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
closes: Bug#50832
* [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:08:31 +0000 (05:08 +0000)]
Added must/should/may stuff, typo fixes in the policy and rules files, as well as updating the symlink before lib handling in dpkg language
Author: srivasta
Date: 2000/08/21 01:16:27
Added must/should/may stuff, typo fixes in the policy and rules files, as well as updating the symlink before lib handling in dpkg language
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:08:09 +0000 (05:08 +0000)]
Add dpkg-architecture invocation to the debian/rules file (not really needed here, but this standardizes the rules file)
Author: srivasta
Date: 2000/07/30 21:14:30
Add dpkg-architecture invocation to the debian/rules file (not really needed here, but this standardizes the rules file)
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:07:52 +0000 (05:07 +0000)]
* Added FHS details to copyright file
Author: jdg
Date: 2000/06/23 16:37:48
* Added FHS details to copyright file
* Added wording for bug#22395: hard links to conffiles
* Modified debian/rules to handle different versions of groff
* Fixed bug#39398 (which actually received two seconds), with minor
amendments
* Removed versions 3.1.1.[23] from the changelog (merging the
changelog info); these were never actually released
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:07:46 +0000 (05:07 +0000)]
Renumbered version to 3.2.0.0
Author: jdg
Date: 2000/06/20 15:31:32
Renumbered version to 3.2.0.0
Modified debian/rules to handle new FHS version (which has no
pre-formatted text or dvi version), and handle tmac.m patch file
from Daniel Quinlan
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:07:34 +0000 (05:07 +0000)]
Fixed ftp path for the policy manual location. Fixed the missing entity in the sgml files. Register docs in the correct section.
Author: srivasta
Date: 2000/03/18 02:37:57
Fixed ftp path for the policy manual location. Fixed the missing entity in the sgml files. Register docs in the correct section.
Author: srivasta
Date: 2000/03/17 23:04:38
* [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
* [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
* [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
alternative closes: Bug#53755
* [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
list closes: Bug#53756
* [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
* [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
* [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
policy closes: Bug#53760
* [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
policy closes: Bug#53761
* [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
that use X closes: Bug#53762
* [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
* packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
* Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
* Documented that the library before the symlink hack (which dependend
on file system specific kinks to work) is no longer required by newer
versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
* Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
* [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
* We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
* Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since that is where they
belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
* Added policy-process to document current procedures.
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:07:09 +0000 (05:07 +0000)]
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.
Author: srivasta
Date: 2000/02/29 04:35:00
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 [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:06:57 +0000 (05:06 +0000)]
* Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes
Author: jdg
Date: 1999/12/20 20:43:36
* Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
* Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
* Removed old debian/postinst and debian/prerm files to avoid any
confusion
* Other miscellaneous cleanups (nothing of any substance)
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:04:40 +0000 (05:04 +0000)]
- Rearranged the manula to create a new Section 4, Files
Author: srivasta
Date: 1998/10/30 05:29:35
- Rearranged the manula to create a new Section 4, Files
+ Section 3.3 ("Files") was moved to Section 4. The Sections
that were Section 4 and Section 5 were moved down to become
Section 5 and Section 6.
+ What was Section 5.5 ("Log files") is now a subsection of the
new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8, placed after
"Configuration files", moving the Section 4.8 ("Permissions
and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the old
Section 5 after 5.5 were moved down to fill in the number
gap.
- Modified the section about changelog files to accomodate
upstream changelogs which were formatted as HTML/ These
upstream chagelog files should now be accessible as
/usr/doc/package/changelog.html.gz
+ Symlinks are permissible to link the real, or upstream,
changelog name to the Debian mandated name.
- Clarified that HTML documentation should be present in some
package, though not necessarily the main binary package.
- Corrected all references to the location of the copyright
files. The correct location is /usr/doc/package/copyright
- Ratified the architecture specification strings to cater to the
HURD.
Manoj Srivastava [Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:04:29 +0000 (05:04 +0000)]
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?
Author: srivasta
Date: 1998/10/30 02:45:58
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?