1 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
5 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
7 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
8 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
10 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
11 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
12 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
13 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
14 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
16 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
17 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
18 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
19 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
20 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
21 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
23 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
24 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
25 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
26 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
28 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
29 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
30 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
31 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
32 Closes: #620870, #532120
33 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
34 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
35 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
36 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
37 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
39 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
40 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
41 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
42 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
43 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
45 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
46 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
47 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
48 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
49 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
51 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
52 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
53 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
54 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
55 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
56 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
57 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
58 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
59 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
60 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
61 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
62 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
63 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
64 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
65 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
66 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
68 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
70 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
71 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
72 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
73 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
74 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
75 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
76 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
77 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
78 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
81 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
83 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
84 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
85 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
86 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
87 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
88 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
89 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
91 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
92 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
94 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
95 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
96 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
97 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
98 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
100 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
102 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
103 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
104 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
106 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
107 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
108 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
109 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
111 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
112 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
113 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
115 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
116 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
117 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
118 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
119 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
120 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
122 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
123 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
124 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
125 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
127 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
128 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
129 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
130 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
131 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
133 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
134 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
135 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
136 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
137 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
139 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
140 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
141 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
142 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
145 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:27:54 +0100
147 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
149 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
150 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
151 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
152 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
153 Closes: #459868, #581011
154 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
155 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
156 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
157 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
159 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
160 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
161 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
162 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
164 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
165 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
166 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
167 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
169 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
170 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
171 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
172 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
174 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
175 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
176 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
177 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
178 Closes: #501930, #593909
179 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
180 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
181 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
182 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
184 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
185 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
186 machine. (Closes: #591857)
187 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
188 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
189 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
190 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
191 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
192 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
193 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
194 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
195 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
196 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
198 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
199 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
200 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
201 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
202 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
203 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
204 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
205 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
206 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
207 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
208 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
209 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
210 than the version in oldstable.
211 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
212 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
213 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
214 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
215 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
216 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
217 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
218 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
219 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
220 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
221 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
222 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
223 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
224 package. (Closes: #609160)
226 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
228 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
230 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
231 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
232 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
233 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
234 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
236 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
237 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
238 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
239 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
241 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
242 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
243 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
244 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
246 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
247 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
248 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
249 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
250 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
251 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
252 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
253 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
254 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
256 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
257 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
258 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
259 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
261 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
262 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
263 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
264 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
266 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
267 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
268 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
269 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
271 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
272 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
273 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
274 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
276 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
277 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
278 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
279 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
280 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
282 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
283 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
284 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
285 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
286 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
288 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
289 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
290 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
291 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
293 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
294 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
295 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
296 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
298 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
299 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
300 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
301 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
303 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
304 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
305 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
306 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
308 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
309 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
310 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
311 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
313 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
314 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
315 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
316 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
318 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
320 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
321 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
322 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
323 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
324 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
325 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
326 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
327 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
328 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
330 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
331 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
332 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
333 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
334 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
335 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
337 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
339 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
342 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
345 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
348 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
349 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
350 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
351 and distribution license' (three times).
352 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
353 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
354 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
355 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
356 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
358 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
360 Proposed by Santiago Vila
361 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
362 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
363 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
364 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
368 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
369 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
370 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
371 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
373 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
374 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
375 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
376 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
377 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
378 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
380 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
381 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
382 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
383 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
385 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
386 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
387 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
388 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
389 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
391 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
392 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
393 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
394 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
395 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
397 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
398 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
399 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
400 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
401 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
403 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
404 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
405 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
406 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
408 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
409 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
410 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
411 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
412 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
414 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
415 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
416 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
417 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
419 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
420 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
421 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
422 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
424 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
425 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
426 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
427 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
428 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
430 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
431 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
432 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
433 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
435 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
436 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
437 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
438 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
439 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
441 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
442 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
443 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
444 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
446 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
447 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
448 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
449 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
450 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
451 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
452 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
453 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
454 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
455 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
456 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
457 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
458 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
459 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
460 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
461 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
462 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
463 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
464 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
465 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
466 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
467 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
468 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
469 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
470 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
471 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
472 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
473 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
474 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
475 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
476 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
477 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
479 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
481 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
483 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
486 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
487 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
489 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
490 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
494 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
497 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
498 Wording: Steve Langasek.
499 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
500 Seconded: Julien Cristau
501 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
504 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
505 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
506 Seconded: Russ Allbery
507 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
510 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
511 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
512 Seconded: Russ Allbery
514 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
515 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
516 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
517 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
518 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
519 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
520 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
521 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
522 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
524 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
525 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
526 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
527 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
528 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
529 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
530 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
531 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
532 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
533 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
534 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
535 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
536 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
537 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
538 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
539 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
541 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
542 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
543 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
544 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
545 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
547 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
550 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
551 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
552 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
553 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
554 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
555 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
558 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
560 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
562 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
563 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
564 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
565 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
567 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
568 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
569 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
570 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
572 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
573 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
574 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
575 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
577 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
578 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
579 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
580 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
581 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
582 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
584 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
585 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
586 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
587 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
588 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
590 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
591 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
592 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
593 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
595 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
596 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
597 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
598 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
600 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
601 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
602 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
603 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
605 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
606 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
607 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
608 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
610 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
611 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
612 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
613 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
615 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
616 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
617 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
618 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
619 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
620 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
621 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
622 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
623 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
624 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
625 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
626 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
627 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
628 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
629 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
631 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
632 Source field descriptions.
633 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
634 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
635 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
636 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
637 description says otherwise.
639 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
641 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
644 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
645 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
646 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
647 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
648 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
649 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
651 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
652 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
653 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
654 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
656 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
657 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
658 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
659 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
661 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
662 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
663 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
664 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
666 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
667 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
668 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
669 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
673 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
674 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
675 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
676 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
677 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
679 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
680 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
681 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
682 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
684 * Add myself to Uploaders.
687 * Add myself to Uploaders.
688 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
690 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
691 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
692 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
694 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
696 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
698 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
699 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
700 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
701 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
703 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
704 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
705 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
706 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
708 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
709 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
710 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
711 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
713 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
714 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
715 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
716 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
718 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
719 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
720 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
721 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
723 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
724 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
725 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
726 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
728 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
729 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
730 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
731 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
733 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
734 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
735 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
736 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
738 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
739 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
740 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
741 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
743 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
744 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
745 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
746 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
748 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
749 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
750 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
751 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
752 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
754 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
755 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
756 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
757 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
758 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
759 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
760 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
761 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
762 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
763 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
764 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
765 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
766 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
767 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
768 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
769 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
770 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
771 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
772 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
773 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
774 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
775 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
776 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
777 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
778 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
779 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
780 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
781 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
782 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
783 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
785 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
786 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
787 links was completed long ago.
788 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
790 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
792 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
794 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
795 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
797 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
799 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
801 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
802 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
803 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
804 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
805 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
806 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
807 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
808 Millan (Closes: #209008).
809 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
810 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
812 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
814 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
816 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
817 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
818 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
819 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
820 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
821 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
822 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
824 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
825 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
826 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
827 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
829 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
830 Küster (Closes: #403391).
831 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
832 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
833 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
834 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
835 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
836 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
837 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
838 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
839 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
840 Closes: #186700, #458910
841 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
842 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
843 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
845 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
846 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
847 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
848 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
849 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
850 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
851 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
852 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
854 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
855 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
857 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
858 * Add an md5sums control file.
859 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
860 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
861 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
862 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
863 currently part of policy.
864 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
865 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
866 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
869 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
871 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
873 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
874 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
875 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
876 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
877 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
878 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
879 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
880 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
881 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
882 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
883 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
884 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
885 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
886 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
887 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
888 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
890 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
892 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
893 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
894 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
896 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
897 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
898 list?" (Closes: #412634).
899 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
900 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
901 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
902 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
903 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
904 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
905 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
906 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
907 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
908 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
909 debconf specification.
910 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
911 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
913 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
915 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
917 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
918 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
919 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
920 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
921 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
923 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
925 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
926 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
927 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
928 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
929 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
931 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
932 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
933 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
934 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
935 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
936 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
937 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
938 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
939 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
940 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
941 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
942 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
943 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
944 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
945 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
946 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
948 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
950 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
951 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
952 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
953 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
954 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
955 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
956 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
957 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
959 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
961 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
963 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
964 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
965 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
966 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
967 Polo (Closes: #372497).
968 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
969 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
971 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
972 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
973 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
974 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
975 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
976 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
977 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
978 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
979 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
980 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
982 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
983 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
984 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
985 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
986 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
987 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
989 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
991 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
993 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
994 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
995 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
996 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
998 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
999 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1001 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1003 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1006 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1007 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1008 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1009 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1010 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1011 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1012 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1013 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1014 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1016 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1017 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1018 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1019 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1020 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1021 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1022 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1023 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1024 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1025 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1026 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1029 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1031 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1034 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1035 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1036 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1037 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1038 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1039 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1040 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1041 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1042 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1043 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1044 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1045 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1046 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1047 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1048 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1049 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1050 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1051 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1052 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1053 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1054 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1055 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1056 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1057 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1058 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1059 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1060 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1062 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1063 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1064 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1065 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1066 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1067 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1068 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1069 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1070 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1071 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1072 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1073 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1074 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1075 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1076 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1077 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1079 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1080 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1082 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1083 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1084 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1085 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1086 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1087 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1088 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1089 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1090 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1091 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1092 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1094 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1096 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1099 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1100 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1101 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1102 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1103 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1104 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1105 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1106 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1107 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1108 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1109 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1110 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1111 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1113 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1114 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1115 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1116 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1117 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1118 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1119 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1120 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1121 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1122 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1123 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1124 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1125 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1126 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1127 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1128 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1129 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1130 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1131 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1134 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1136 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1139 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1140 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1141 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1143 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1144 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1145 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1146 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1148 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1150 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1154 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1155 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1156 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1157 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1158 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1159 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1160 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1161 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1162 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1164 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1165 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1166 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1168 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1169 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1170 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1171 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1172 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1173 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1174 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1176 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1177 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1178 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1179 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1181 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1182 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1183 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1184 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1185 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1186 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1187 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1188 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1190 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1191 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1192 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1193 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1194 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1195 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1196 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1197 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1198 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1199 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1200 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1201 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1202 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1203 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1204 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1205 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1206 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1208 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1210 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1214 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1215 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1216 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1217 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1218 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1219 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1220 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1221 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1223 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1224 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1225 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1226 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1227 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1228 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1229 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1230 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1231 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1232 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1233 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1234 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1235 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1236 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1237 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1238 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1239 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1241 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1242 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1243 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1246 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1247 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1248 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1250 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1251 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1252 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1253 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1254 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1255 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1257 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1258 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1260 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1261 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1262 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1263 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1264 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1265 Closes: #185943, #237049
1267 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1269 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1275 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1276 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1277 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1278 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1279 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1280 running. closes: Bug#187250
1281 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1282 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1283 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1284 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1285 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1286 user closes: Bug#176506
1288 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1290 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1294 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1295 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1296 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1297 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1298 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1299 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1300 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1301 deb-building toolchain.
1302 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1303 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1304 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1305 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1306 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1307 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1308 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1309 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1310 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1311 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1312 sections about changelog files.
1314 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1315 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1316 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1317 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1318 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1319 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1321 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1322 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1323 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1324 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1325 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1326 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1327 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1328 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1329 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1330 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1331 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1332 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1333 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1334 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1335 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1336 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1337 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1338 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1339 for the restructuring
1341 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1343 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1348 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1349 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1350 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1351 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1352 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1353 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1355 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1356 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1357 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1358 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1359 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1360 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1361 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1363 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1364 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1365 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1366 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1368 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1370 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1374 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1375 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1376 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1377 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1378 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1380 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1381 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1382 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1383 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1385 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1386 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1387 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1388 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1389 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1390 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1391 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1392 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1393 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1394 offtopic stuff, too.
1395 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1396 script should start it, closes: #60979
1397 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1398 "should", closes: #170019
1399 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1400 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1401 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1402 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1403 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1404 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1405 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1406 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1409 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1411 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1415 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1416 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1417 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1418 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1419 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1420 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1421 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1422 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1424 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1425 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1426 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1427 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1428 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1429 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1430 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1431 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1432 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1434 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1435 file, closes: Bug#65764
1437 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1439 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1441 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1442 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1443 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1444 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1445 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1446 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1447 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1448 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1449 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1450 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1451 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1452 details. closes: Bug#133030
1453 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1454 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1455 parts of Bug#161455.
1457 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1459 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1462 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1463 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1464 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1465 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1466 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1467 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1468 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1469 not. closes: Bug#139820
1470 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1471 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1472 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1473 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1474 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1475 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1476 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1477 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1478 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1479 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1481 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1483 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1484 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1485 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1486 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1487 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1488 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1489 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1490 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1491 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1492 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1493 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1494 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1495 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1496 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1497 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1498 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1499 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1500 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1501 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1502 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1504 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1505 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1506 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1507 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1508 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1509 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1510 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1512 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1513 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1514 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1515 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1516 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1517 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1518 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1519 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1520 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1522 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1524 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1526 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1527 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1528 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1529 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1530 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1531 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1532 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1533 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1534 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1535 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1536 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1537 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1538 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1539 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1540 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1541 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1542 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1543 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1544 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1545 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1546 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1547 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1548 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1550 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1552 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1555 medium, high, emergency.
1556 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1557 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1558 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1559 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1560 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1563 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1564 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1565 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1567 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1568 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1569 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1570 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1571 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1572 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1573 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1576 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1578 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1581 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1582 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1583 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1585 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1586 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1587 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1588 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1589 debian/rules to do this
1590 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1591 patches are incorporated upstream
1592 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1593 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1594 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1595 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1596 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1597 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1599 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1600 system closes: Bug#91249
1601 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1602 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1603 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1604 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1605 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1606 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1607 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1608 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1609 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1610 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1611 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1612 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1613 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1615 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1617 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1620 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1621 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1622 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1624 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1625 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1626 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1628 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1631 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1633 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1636 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1637 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1638 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1639 package for the time being
1640 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1641 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1642 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1643 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1644 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1645 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1646 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1647 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1648 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1649 Build-Depends arch syntax
1650 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1652 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1653 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1655 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1656 from policy maintenance duties.
1657 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1658 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1660 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1662 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1664 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1666 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1668 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1671 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1672 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1673 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1674 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1675 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1676 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1677 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1678 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1679 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1680 minor version number for this
1681 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1682 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1683 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1684 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1685 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1686 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1687 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1688 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1689 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1691 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1693 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1696 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1697 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1698 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1699 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1701 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1703 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1704 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1705 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1706 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1707 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1708 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1709 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1710 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1711 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1712 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1713 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1714 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1715 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1716 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1717 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1718 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1721 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1723 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1726 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1728 * Document the Enhances relationship
1729 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1730 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1731 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1732 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1733 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1734 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1736 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1738 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1739 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1740 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1741 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1743 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1744 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1745 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1746 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1747 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1749 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1751 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1754 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1755 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1757 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1758 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1759 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1760 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1761 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1762 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1763 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1764 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1765 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1767 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1769 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1771 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1773 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1774 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1775 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1776 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1777 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1778 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1779 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1780 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1781 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1782 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1783 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1784 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1785 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1786 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1787 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1788 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1789 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1790 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1791 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1792 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1793 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1794 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1796 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1797 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1799 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1801 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1803 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1804 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1805 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1806 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1807 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1808 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1809 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1810 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1811 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1812 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1813 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1814 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1815 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1816 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1817 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1818 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1819 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1820 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1821 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1822 list closes: Bug#53756
1823 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1824 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1825 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1826 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1827 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1828 policy closes: Bug#53760
1829 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1830 policy closes: Bug#53761
1831 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1832 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1833 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1834 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1835 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1836 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1837 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1838 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1839 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1840 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1841 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1843 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1844 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1845 to install with older fileutils.
1846 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1847 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1848 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1849 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1851 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1852 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1854 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1856 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1859 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1861 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1863 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1865 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1866 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1868 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1871 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1874 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1876 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1878 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1880 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1883 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1885 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1887 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1890 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1891 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1892 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1893 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1894 directoried (closes: #41547)
1895 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1896 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1897 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1898 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1899 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1900 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1901 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1902 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1903 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1904 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1905 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1907 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1908 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1909 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1910 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1911 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1912 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1913 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1915 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1916 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1917 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1918 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1920 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1922 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1924 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1925 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1927 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1929 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1932 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1934 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1936 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1939 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1941 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1942 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1943 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1944 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1945 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1946 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1947 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1948 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1949 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1950 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1951 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1952 this closes: Bug#38612
1953 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1954 before. closes: Bug#40864
1956 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1958 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1961 officially uploaded.
1962 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1964 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1965 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1966 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1968 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1969 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1970 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1971 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1972 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1973 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1975 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1976 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1977 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1979 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1981 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1982 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1983 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1984 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1985 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1987 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1989 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1992 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1993 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1994 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1995 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1996 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1997 there). closes: Bug#34233
1998 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1999 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2000 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2001 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2002 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2004 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2006 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2008 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2009 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2010 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2011 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2014 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2015 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2016 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2017 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2018 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2021 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2022 number. closes: BUG#25911
2024 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2025 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2026 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2027 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2028 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2029 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2031 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2032 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2033 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2036 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2037 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2038 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2040 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2041 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2042 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2043 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2045 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2046 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2047 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2049 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2051 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2052 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2053 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2054 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2055 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2056 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2057 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2058 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2061 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2063 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2064 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2067 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2069 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2073 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2075 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2078 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2079 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2080 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2081 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2082 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2083 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2084 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2086 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2087 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2089 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2091 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2093 * non-maintainer release
2094 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2095 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2097 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2098 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2099 * no content changes
2100 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2102 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2104 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2108 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2110 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2112 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2114 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2115 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2116 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2118 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2119 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2121 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2122 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2123 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2124 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2126 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2127 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2128 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2129 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2130 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2131 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2132 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2134 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2135 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2136 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2139 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2140 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2141 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2143 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2144 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2145 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2147 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2148 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2150 * New version numbering scheme:
2152 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2153 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2154 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2157 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2158 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2159 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2160 differ between the manuals.
2162 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2163 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2164 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2165 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2167 * Packaging changes:
2169 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2170 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2172 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2174 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2176 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2178 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2180 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2181 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2182 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2184 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2185 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2188 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2189 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2190 file extension as the referenced file
2192 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2193 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2195 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2196 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2197 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2198 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2201 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2202 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2203 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2205 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2206 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2207 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2208 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2211 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2212 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2215 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2216 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2217 reasonable default configuration
2219 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2220 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2221 by all news servers and clients
2223 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2224 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2225 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2226 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2227 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2229 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2230 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2233 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2235 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2236 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2238 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2241 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2242 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2244 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2245 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2247 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2249 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2251 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2254 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2255 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2256 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2258 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2260 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2261 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2262 * Don't use debstd anymore
2264 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2266 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2268 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2269 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2270 contrib/non-free policy
2271 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2272 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2273 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2274 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2275 - new section about `Daemons'
2276 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2277 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2278 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2279 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2280 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2281 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2282 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2283 * SGML source code included in package
2284 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2286 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2288 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2291 - completely reworked structure
2292 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2293 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2294 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2295 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2296 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2297 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2298 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2299 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2300 - mention "orphaned packages"
2301 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2302 distributions' policy
2303 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2304 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2305 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2306 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2307 - added section about arch spec strings
2308 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2309 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2310 - added section about "menus"
2311 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2312 the new documentation policy soon
2313 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2314 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2316 - added section about editors and pagers
2317 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2318 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2319 - added section about device files
2320 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2321 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2322 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2324 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2325 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2326 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2327 - Added new section about obsolete names
2328 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2329 * Fixed package's description
2331 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2333 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2335 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2337 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2339 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2341 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2342 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2343 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2344 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2346 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2348 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2350 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2351 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2352 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2354 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2355 and upload it "byhand" too.
2357 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2359 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2362 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2363 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2364 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2365 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2366 functionality must not have the same name.
2367 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2368 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2369 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2370 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2371 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2372 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2373 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2375 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2376 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2377 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2378 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2379 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2380 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2381 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2382 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2385 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2387 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2389 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2391 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2392 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2393 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2394 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2395 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2398 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2400 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2402 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2404 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2405 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2406 description of deb file format.
2407 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2408 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2410 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2412 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2413 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2415 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2417 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2419 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2420 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2421 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2422 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2423 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2424 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2425 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2426 packages in section on Procedure
2427 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2428 a package maintainer
2429 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2430 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2431 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2433 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2434 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2435 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2436 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2437 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2438 on various shlib files
2439 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2440 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2441 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2443 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2445 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2447 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2448 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2449 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2451 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2452 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2453 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2454 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2455 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2457 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2459 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2461 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2463 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2465 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2466 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2467 compatibility go in contrib.
2469 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2470 instructions in policy manual.
2471 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2474 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2476 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2478 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2479 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2480 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2481 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2483 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2484 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2487 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2489 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2491 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2492 * More detail about changelog format names.
2494 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2495 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2499 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2501 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2503 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2505 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2507 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2509 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2511 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2513 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2514 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2515 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2517 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2519 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2521 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2523 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2525 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2529 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100