1 debian-policy (3.9.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
4 * upgrading-checklist.sgml: remove spurious 'details in' leftover from
5 the HTML transition. Closes: #740100. Thanks Jakub Wilk.
6 * Fix use of metasyntactic variable in [11.5.1] Web servers and applications
7 Closes: #737730. Thanks Olivier Berger.
8 * Policy: Remove reference to DEHS (dead service)
9 Wording: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
10 Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
11 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
13 * Policy: Relax /usr/share FHS requirement for directories with mixed content.
14 Wording: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
15 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
16 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
17 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
18 Seconded: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>
20 * Perl Policy: @INC has /usr/lib/perl/5.18, not /usr/lib/perl/5.18.2
21 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
22 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
23 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
25 * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
28 * Policy: Drop FHS requirement that /usr/local/lib<qual> exist when /lib<qual>
29 or /usr/lib<qual> does.
30 Wording: Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>
31 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
32 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
33 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
36 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Sat, 17 May 2014 18:49:57 +0200
38 debian-policy (3.9.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
40 * Policy: Document the Package-List field.
41 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
42 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
43 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
45 * Policy: DM-Upload-Allowed is now obsolete
46 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
47 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
48 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
49 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
51 * Policy: Checksums-{Sha1,Sha256} are now mandatory
52 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
53 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
54 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
56 * Policy: Requirements for udebs are not well documented yet
57 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
58 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
59 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
60 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
61 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
63 * Policy: install-info is run by a dpkg trigger.
64 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
65 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
66 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
68 * Policy: Stop recommending to serve HTML documents from /usr/share/doc.
69 Wording: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>
70 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
71 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
73 * Policy: File names encoded in UTF-8. ASCII preferred and mandatory in PATH.
74 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
75 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
76 Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
78 * Policy: Document the Dgit field for Debian Source Control files.
79 Wording: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
80 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
81 Seconded: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
82 Seconded: Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox@debian.org>
84 * Policy: Remove the exception to the FHS for the /selinux directory.
85 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
86 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
87 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
89 * Policy: on upgrades, recommend removing obsolete unchanged conf. files.
90 Wording: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
91 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
92 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
94 * Policy: Control data fields must not start with a hyphen character.
95 Wording: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
96 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
97 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
99 * debconf_spec: Document the 'escape' capability.
100 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
101 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
102 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
104 * virtual-package-names-list: removed mp3-decoder and mp3-encoder.
105 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
106 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
107 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
109 * Clean outdated mentions of dpkg commands in appendix. Thanks, Guillem Jover
110 * Remove outdated mention of dselect documentation.
111 Closes: #700574. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
112 * Update dak reference from old katie name.
113 Closes: #700536. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
114 * Fix typo in 8.6.4. Thanks, Raúl Benencia. (Closes: #691352)
115 * Fix typo in 8.6.4.1. Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>.
116 * Added a warning in appendix G about diverting conffiles.
117 Closes: #703022. Thanks, Torsten Jerzembeck.
118 * List build-arch and build-indep with the other required targets in 4.9.
119 Closes: #704657. Thanks, Philipp Hahn.
120 * Replaced non-standard names of dpkg states by normalised ones.
122 * Clarify what is meant by "compressed" in section 10.5. (Closes: #676784)
123 * Packaging: use the VCS URLs proposed by Lintian.
124 * Packaging: normalised debian/control with the tool "config-model-edit".
125 * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
127 -- Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> Mon, 28 Oct 2013 09:40:48 +0900
129 debian-policy (3.9.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
131 * build-arch and build-indep are now mandatory targets in debian/rules,
132 implementing the Technical Committee ruling in #629385. Wording
133 review by Jonathan Nieder, Jakub Wilk, and Roger Leigh.
135 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding tasks.
136 Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #670429)
137 * Policy: Copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8
138 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
139 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
140 Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
141 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
143 * Policy: Prohibit deprecated < and > relations
144 Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
145 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
146 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
148 * Policy: Document the Built-Using field
149 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
150 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
151 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
153 * Policy: Document the Vcs-* fields
154 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
155 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
156 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
157 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
158 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
160 * Policy: Document restrictions on the use of /run for wheezy
161 Wording: Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
162 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
163 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
165 * Policy: Rewrite shared library dependency policy to document symbols
166 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
167 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
168 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
169 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
171 * Policy: Document generic and upstart-specific init system requirements
172 Wording: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
173 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
174 Seconded: Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
176 * Policy: Rely on triggers instead of calling update-mime
177 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
178 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
179 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
182 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:35:36 -0700
184 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
186 * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source
187 package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)
188 * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.
189 Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)
190 and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and
192 * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking
193 whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending
194 dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)
195 * Remove the ambiguous word "installed" when requiring that the location
196 of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)
197 * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not
198 contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)
199 * Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided
200 (currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist
201 or perform the equivalent actions. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some
202 of the wording. (Closes: #601839)
203 * Clearly state that "yes" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed
204 and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)
205 * Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to
206 reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam
207 Morris. (Closes: #658009)
208 * Fix the legal notice in copyright-format to not refer to a nonexistent
210 * Embed the Debian Policy version and build date in the debconf
211 specification and the copyright-format document. We'll make
212 non-normative changes without updating other version numbers, and it's
213 good to know which version one is looking at.
214 * Fix some whitespace issues in the debconf specification articleinfo.
215 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
216 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
217 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
218 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
219 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
220 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
222 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
223 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
224 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
225 * Expand package long description to include all documents.
226 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
228 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
229 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
230 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
232 * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0, and in the process
233 add the license information for the documents other than Policy itself
234 and the FHS. Note the implication of the GPL source code requirement
235 for distributing generated versions of the Policy documents.
237 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:02:12 -0800
239 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
242 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
243 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
244 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
245 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
246 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
247 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
248 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
249 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
250 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
251 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
252 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
253 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
254 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
255 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
257 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
258 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
259 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
260 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
261 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
263 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
264 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
265 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
266 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
267 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
268 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
270 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
271 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
272 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
273 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
275 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
276 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
277 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
278 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
279 Closes: #620870, #532120
280 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
281 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
282 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
283 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
284 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
286 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
287 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
288 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
289 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
290 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
292 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
293 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
294 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
295 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
296 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
298 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
299 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
300 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
301 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
302 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
303 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
304 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
305 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
306 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
307 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
308 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
309 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
310 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
311 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
312 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
313 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
315 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
317 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
318 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
319 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
320 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
321 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
322 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
323 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
324 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
325 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
326 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
329 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
331 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
332 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
333 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
334 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
335 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
336 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
337 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
339 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
340 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
342 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
343 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
344 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
345 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
346 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
348 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
350 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
351 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
352 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
354 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
355 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
356 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
357 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
359 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
360 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
361 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
363 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
364 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
365 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
366 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
367 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
368 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
370 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
371 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
372 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
373 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
375 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
376 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
377 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
378 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
379 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
381 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
382 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
383 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
384 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
385 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
387 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
388 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
389 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
390 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
392 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
393 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
394 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
395 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
398 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
400 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
402 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
403 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
404 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
405 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
406 Closes: #459868, #581011
407 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
408 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
409 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
410 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
412 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
413 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
414 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
415 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
417 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
418 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
419 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
420 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
422 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
423 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
424 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
425 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
427 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
428 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
429 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
430 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
431 Closes: #501930, #593909
432 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
433 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
434 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
435 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
437 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
438 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
439 machine. (Closes: #591857)
440 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
441 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
442 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
443 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
444 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
445 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
446 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
447 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
448 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
449 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
451 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
452 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
453 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
454 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
455 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
456 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
457 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
458 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
459 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
460 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
461 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
462 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
463 than the version in oldstable.
464 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
465 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
466 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
467 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
468 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
469 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
470 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
471 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
472 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
473 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
474 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
475 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
476 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
477 package. (Closes: #609160)
479 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
481 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
483 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
484 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
485 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
486 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
487 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
489 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
490 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
491 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
492 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
494 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
495 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
496 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
497 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
499 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
500 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
501 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
502 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
503 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
504 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
505 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
506 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
507 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
509 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
510 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
511 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
512 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
514 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
515 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
516 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
517 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
519 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
520 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
521 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
522 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
524 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
525 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
526 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
527 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
529 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
530 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
531 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
532 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
533 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
535 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
536 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
537 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
538 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
539 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
541 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
542 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
543 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
544 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
546 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
547 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
548 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
549 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
551 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
552 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
553 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
554 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
556 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
557 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
558 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
559 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
561 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
562 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
563 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
564 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
566 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
567 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
568 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
569 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
571 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
573 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
574 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
575 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
576 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
577 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
578 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
579 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
580 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
581 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
583 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
584 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
585 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
586 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
587 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
588 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
590 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
592 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
595 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
598 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
601 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
602 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
603 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
604 and distribution license' (three times).
605 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
606 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
607 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
608 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
609 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
611 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
613 Proposed by Santiago Vila
614 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
615 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
616 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
617 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
621 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
622 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
623 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
624 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
626 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
627 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
628 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
629 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
630 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
631 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
633 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
634 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
635 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
636 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
638 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
639 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
640 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
641 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
642 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
644 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
645 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
646 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
647 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
648 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
650 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
651 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
652 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
653 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
654 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
656 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
657 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
658 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
659 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
661 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
662 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
663 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
664 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
665 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
667 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
668 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
669 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
670 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
672 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
673 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
674 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
675 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
677 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
678 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
679 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
680 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
681 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
683 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
684 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
685 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
686 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
688 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
689 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
690 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
691 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
692 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
694 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
695 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
696 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
697 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
699 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
700 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
701 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
702 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
703 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
704 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
705 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
706 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
707 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
708 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
709 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
710 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
711 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
712 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
713 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
714 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
715 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
716 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
717 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
718 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
719 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
720 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
721 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
722 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
723 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
724 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
725 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
726 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
727 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
728 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
729 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
730 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
732 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
734 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
736 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
739 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
740 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
742 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
743 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
747 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
750 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
751 Wording: Steve Langasek.
752 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
753 Seconded: Julien Cristau
754 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
757 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
758 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
759 Seconded: Russ Allbery
760 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
763 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
764 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
765 Seconded: Russ Allbery
767 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
768 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
769 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
770 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
771 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
772 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
773 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
774 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
775 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
777 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
778 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
779 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
780 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
781 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
782 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
783 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
784 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
785 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
786 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
787 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
788 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
789 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
790 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
791 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
792 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
794 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
795 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
796 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
797 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
798 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
800 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
803 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
804 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
805 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
806 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
807 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
808 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
811 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
813 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
815 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
816 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
817 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
818 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
820 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
821 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
822 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
823 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
825 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
826 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
827 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
828 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
830 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
831 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
832 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
833 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
834 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
835 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
837 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
838 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
839 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
840 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
841 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
843 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
844 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
845 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
846 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
848 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
849 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
850 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
851 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
853 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
854 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
855 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
856 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
858 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
859 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
860 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
861 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
863 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
864 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
865 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
866 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
868 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
869 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
870 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
871 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
872 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
873 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
874 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
875 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
876 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
877 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
878 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
879 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
880 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
881 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
882 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
884 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
885 Source field descriptions.
886 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
887 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
888 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
889 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
890 description says otherwise.
892 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
894 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
897 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
898 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
899 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
900 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
901 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
902 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
904 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
905 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
906 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
907 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
909 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
910 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
911 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
912 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
914 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
915 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
916 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
917 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
919 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
920 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
921 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
922 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
926 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
927 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
928 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
929 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
930 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
932 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
933 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
934 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
935 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
937 * Add myself to Uploaders.
940 * Add myself to Uploaders.
941 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
943 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
944 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
945 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
947 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
949 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
951 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
952 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
953 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
954 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
956 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
957 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
958 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
959 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
961 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
962 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
963 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
964 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
966 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
967 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
968 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
969 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
971 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
972 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
973 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
974 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
976 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
977 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
978 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
979 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
981 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
982 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
983 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
984 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
986 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
987 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
988 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
989 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
991 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
992 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
993 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
994 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
996 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
997 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
998 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
999 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
1001 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
1002 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1003 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1004 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
1005 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1007 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
1008 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
1009 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
1010 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
1011 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
1012 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
1013 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
1014 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
1015 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
1016 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
1017 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
1018 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
1019 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
1020 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
1021 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
1022 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
1023 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
1024 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
1025 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
1026 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
1027 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
1028 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
1029 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
1030 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
1031 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
1032 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
1033 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
1034 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
1035 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
1036 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
1038 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
1039 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
1040 links was completed long ago.
1041 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
1043 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
1045 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1047 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
1048 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
1050 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
1052 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
1055 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
1056 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
1057 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
1058 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
1059 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
1060 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
1061 Millan (Closes: #209008).
1062 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
1063 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
1065 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
1067 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
1069 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
1070 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
1071 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
1072 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
1073 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
1074 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
1075 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
1077 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
1078 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
1079 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
1080 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
1082 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
1083 Küster (Closes: #403391).
1084 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
1085 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
1086 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
1087 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
1088 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
1089 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1090 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1091 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
1092 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1093 Closes: #186700, #458910
1094 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
1095 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1096 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1098 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
1099 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
1100 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
1101 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
1102 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
1103 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
1104 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
1105 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
1107 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
1108 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
1110 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
1111 * Add an md5sums control file.
1112 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
1113 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
1114 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
1115 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
1116 currently part of policy.
1117 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
1118 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
1119 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
1122 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
1124 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
1127 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1128 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
1129 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
1130 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
1131 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
1132 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
1133 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
1134 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
1135 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
1136 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
1137 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
1138 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
1139 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
1140 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
1141 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
1143 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
1145 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
1146 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
1147 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
1149 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
1150 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
1151 list?" (Closes: #412634).
1152 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
1153 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
1154 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
1155 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
1156 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
1157 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
1158 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
1159 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
1160 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
1161 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
1162 debconf specification.
1163 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
1164 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
1166 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
1168 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
1171 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
1172 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
1173 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
1174 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
1176 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
1178 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
1179 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
1180 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
1181 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
1182 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1184 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
1185 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
1186 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
1187 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
1188 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
1189 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
1190 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
1191 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
1192 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
1193 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
1194 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
1195 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
1196 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
1197 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
1198 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
1199 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1201 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1203 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
1204 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
1205 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1206 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
1207 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
1208 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
1209 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
1210 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1212 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1214 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1217 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1218 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1219 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1220 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1221 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1222 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1224 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1225 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1226 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1227 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1228 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1229 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1230 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1231 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1232 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1233 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1235 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1236 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1237 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1238 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1239 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1240 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1242 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1244 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1247 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1248 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1249 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1251 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1252 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1254 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1256 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1259 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1260 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1261 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1262 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1263 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1264 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1265 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1266 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1267 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1269 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1270 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1271 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1272 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1273 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1274 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1275 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1276 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1277 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1278 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1279 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1282 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1284 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1286 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1287 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1288 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1289 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1290 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1291 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1292 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1293 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1294 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1295 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1296 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1297 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1298 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1299 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1300 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1301 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1302 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1303 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1304 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1305 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1306 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1307 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1308 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1309 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1310 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1311 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1312 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1313 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1315 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1316 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1317 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1318 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1319 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1320 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1321 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1322 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1323 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1324 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1325 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1326 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1327 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1328 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1329 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1330 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1332 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1333 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1335 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1336 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1337 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1338 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1339 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1340 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1341 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1342 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1343 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1344 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1345 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1347 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1349 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1353 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1354 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1355 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1356 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1357 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1358 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1359 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1360 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1361 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1362 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1363 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1364 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1366 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1367 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1368 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1369 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1370 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1371 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1372 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1373 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1374 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1375 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1376 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1377 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1378 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1379 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1380 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1381 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1382 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1383 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1384 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1387 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1389 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1391 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1392 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1393 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1394 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1396 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1397 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1398 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1399 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1401 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1403 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1407 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1408 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1409 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1410 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1411 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1412 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1413 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1414 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1415 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1417 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1418 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1419 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1421 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1422 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1423 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1424 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1425 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1426 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1427 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1429 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1430 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1431 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1432 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1434 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1435 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1436 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1437 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1438 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1439 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1440 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1441 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1443 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1444 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1445 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1446 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1447 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1448 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1449 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1450 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1451 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1452 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1453 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1454 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1455 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1456 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1457 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1458 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1459 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1461 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1463 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1467 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1468 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1469 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1470 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1471 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1472 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1473 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1474 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1476 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1477 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1478 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1479 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1480 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1481 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1482 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1483 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1484 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1485 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1486 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1487 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1488 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1489 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1490 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1491 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1492 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1494 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1495 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1496 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1499 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1500 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1501 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1503 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1504 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1505 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1506 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1507 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1508 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1510 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1511 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1513 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1514 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1515 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1516 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1517 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1518 Closes: #185943, #237049
1520 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1522 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1525 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1528 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1529 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1530 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1531 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1532 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1533 running. closes: Bug#187250
1534 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1535 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1536 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1537 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1538 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1539 user closes: Bug#176506
1541 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1543 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1547 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1548 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1549 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1550 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1551 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1552 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1553 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1554 deb-building toolchain.
1555 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1556 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1557 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1558 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1559 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1560 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1561 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1562 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1563 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1564 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1565 sections about changelog files.
1567 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1568 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1569 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1570 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1571 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1572 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1574 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1575 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1576 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1577 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1578 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1579 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1580 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1581 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1582 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1583 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1584 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1585 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1586 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1587 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1588 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1589 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1590 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1591 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1592 for the restructuring
1594 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1596 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1599 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1601 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1602 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1603 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1604 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1605 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1606 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1608 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1609 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1610 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1611 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1612 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1613 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1614 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1616 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1617 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1618 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1619 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1621 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1623 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1627 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1628 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1629 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1630 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1631 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1633 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1634 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1635 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1636 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1638 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1639 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1640 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1641 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1642 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1643 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1644 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1645 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1646 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1647 offtopic stuff, too.
1648 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1649 script should start it, closes: #60979
1650 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1651 "should", closes: #170019
1652 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1653 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1654 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1655 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1656 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1657 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1658 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1659 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1662 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1664 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1668 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1669 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1670 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1671 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1672 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1673 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1674 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1675 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1677 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1678 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1679 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1680 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1681 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1682 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1683 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1684 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1685 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1687 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1688 file, closes: Bug#65764
1690 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1692 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1695 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1696 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1697 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1698 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1699 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1700 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1701 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1702 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1703 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1704 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1705 details. closes: Bug#133030
1706 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1707 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1708 parts of Bug#161455.
1710 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1712 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1715 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1716 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1717 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1718 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1719 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1720 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1721 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1722 not. closes: Bug#139820
1723 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1724 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1725 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1726 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1727 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1728 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1729 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1730 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1731 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1732 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1734 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1736 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1737 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1738 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1739 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1740 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1741 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1742 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1743 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1744 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1745 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1746 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1747 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1748 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1749 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1750 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1751 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1752 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1753 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1754 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1755 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1757 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1758 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1759 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1760 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1761 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1762 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1763 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1765 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1766 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1767 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1768 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1769 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1770 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1771 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1772 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1773 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1775 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1777 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1780 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1781 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1782 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1783 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1784 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1785 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1786 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1787 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1788 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1789 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1790 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1791 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1792 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1793 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1794 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1795 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1796 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1797 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1798 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1799 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1800 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1801 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1803 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1805 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1807 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1808 medium, high, emergency.
1809 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1810 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1811 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1812 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1813 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1816 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1817 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1818 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1820 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1821 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1822 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1823 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1824 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1825 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1826 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1829 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1831 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1834 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1835 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1836 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1838 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1839 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1840 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1841 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1842 debian/rules to do this
1843 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1844 patches are incorporated upstream
1845 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1846 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1847 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1848 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1849 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1850 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1852 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1853 system closes: Bug#91249
1854 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1855 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1856 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1857 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1858 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1859 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1860 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1861 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1862 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1863 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1864 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1865 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1866 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1868 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1870 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1872 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1873 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1874 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1875 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1877 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1878 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1879 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1881 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1884 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1886 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1889 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1890 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1891 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1892 package for the time being
1893 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1894 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1895 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1896 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1897 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1898 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1899 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1900 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1901 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1902 Build-Depends arch syntax
1903 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1905 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1906 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1908 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1909 from policy maintenance duties.
1910 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1911 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1913 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1915 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1919 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1921 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1924 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1925 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1926 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1927 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1928 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1929 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1930 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1931 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1932 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1933 minor version number for this
1934 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1935 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1936 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1937 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1938 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1939 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1940 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1941 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1942 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1944 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1946 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1948 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1949 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1950 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1951 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1952 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1954 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1956 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1957 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1958 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1959 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1960 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1961 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1962 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1963 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1964 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1965 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1966 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1967 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1968 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1969 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1970 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1971 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1974 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1976 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1979 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1981 * Document the Enhances relationship
1982 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1983 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1984 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1985 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1986 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1987 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1989 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1991 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1992 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1993 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1994 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1996 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1997 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1998 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1999 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
2000 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
2002 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
2004 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
2007 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
2008 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
2010 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
2011 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
2012 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
2013 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
2014 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
2015 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
2016 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
2017 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
2018 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
2020 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
2022 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
2024 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
2027 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
2028 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
2029 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
2030 policy. closes: Bug#64437
2031 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
2032 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
2033 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
2034 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
2035 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
2036 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
2037 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
2038 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
2039 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
2040 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
2041 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
2042 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
2043 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
2044 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
2045 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
2046 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
2047 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
2049 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
2050 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
2052 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
2054 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
2057 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
2058 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
2059 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
2060 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
2061 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
2062 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
2063 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
2064 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
2065 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
2066 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
2067 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
2068 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
2069 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
2070 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
2071 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
2072 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
2073 alternative closes: Bug#53755
2074 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
2075 list closes: Bug#53756
2076 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
2077 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
2078 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
2079 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
2080 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
2081 policy closes: Bug#53760
2082 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
2083 policy closes: Bug#53761
2084 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
2085 that use X closes: Bug#53762
2086 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
2087 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
2088 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
2089 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
2090 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
2091 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
2092 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
2093 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
2094 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
2096 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
2097 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
2098 to install with older fileutils.
2099 * Installed FHS version 2.1
2100 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
2101 * Added FHS details to copyright file
2102 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
2104 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
2105 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
2107 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
2109 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
2112 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
2114 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
2116 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2118 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
2119 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
2121 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
2124 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
2127 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
2129 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
2131 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
2133 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
2136 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
2138 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
2140 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
2143 #45561, #42447, #48570)
2144 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
2145 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
2146 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
2147 directoried (closes: #41547)
2148 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
2149 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
2150 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
2151 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
2152 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
2153 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
2154 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
2155 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
2156 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
2157 package criteria (closes: #45318)
2158 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
2160 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
2161 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
2162 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
2163 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
2164 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
2165 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
2166 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
2168 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
2169 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
2170 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
2171 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
2173 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
2175 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
2177 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
2178 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
2180 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
2182 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2184 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
2185 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
2187 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
2189 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * A few typos and omissions corrected
2192 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
2194 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
2195 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
2196 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
2197 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
2198 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
2199 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
2200 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
2201 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
2202 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
2203 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
2204 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
2205 this closes: Bug#38612
2206 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
2207 before. closes: Bug#40864
2209 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2211 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2214 officially uploaded.
2215 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2217 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2218 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2219 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2221 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2222 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2223 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2224 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2225 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2226 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2228 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2229 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2230 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2232 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2234 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2235 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2236 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2237 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2238 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2240 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2242 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2244 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2245 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2246 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2247 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2248 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2249 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2250 there). closes: Bug#34233
2251 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2252 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2253 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2254 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2255 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2257 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2259 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2261 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2262 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2263 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2264 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2267 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2268 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2269 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2270 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2271 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2274 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2275 number. closes: BUG#25911
2277 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2278 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2279 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2280 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2281 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2282 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2284 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2285 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2286 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2289 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2290 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2291 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2293 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2294 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2295 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2296 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2298 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2299 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2300 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2302 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2304 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2305 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2306 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2307 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2308 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2309 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2310 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2311 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2314 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2316 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2317 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2320 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2322 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2326 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2328 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2330 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2331 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2332 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2333 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2334 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2335 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2336 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2337 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2339 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2340 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2342 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2344 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2346 * non-maintainer release
2347 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2348 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2350 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2351 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2352 * no content changes
2353 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2355 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2357 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2361 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2363 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2365 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2367 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2368 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2369 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2371 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2372 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2374 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2375 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2376 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2377 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2379 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2380 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2381 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2382 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2383 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2384 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2385 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2387 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2388 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2389 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2392 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2393 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2394 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2396 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2397 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2398 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2400 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2401 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2403 * New version numbering scheme:
2405 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2406 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2407 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2410 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2411 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2412 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2413 differ between the manuals.
2415 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2416 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2417 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2418 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2420 * Packaging changes:
2422 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2423 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2425 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2427 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2429 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2431 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2433 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2434 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2435 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2437 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2438 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2441 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2442 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2443 file extension as the referenced file
2445 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2446 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2448 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2449 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2450 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2451 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2454 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2455 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2456 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2458 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2459 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2460 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2461 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2464 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2465 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2468 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2469 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2470 reasonable default configuration
2472 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2473 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2474 by all news servers and clients
2476 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2477 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2478 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2479 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2480 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2482 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2483 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2486 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2488 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2489 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2491 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2494 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2495 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2497 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2498 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2500 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2502 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2504 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2506 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2507 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2508 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2509 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2511 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2513 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2514 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2515 * Don't use debstd anymore
2517 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2519 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2522 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2523 contrib/non-free policy
2524 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2525 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2526 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2527 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2528 - new section about `Daemons'
2529 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2530 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2531 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2532 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2533 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2534 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2535 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2536 * SGML source code included in package
2537 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2539 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2541 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2543 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2544 - completely reworked structure
2545 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2546 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2547 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2548 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2549 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2550 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2551 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2552 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2553 - mention "orphaned packages"
2554 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2555 distributions' policy
2556 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2557 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2558 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2559 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2560 - added section about arch spec strings
2561 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2562 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2563 - added section about "menus"
2564 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2565 the new documentation policy soon
2566 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2567 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2569 - added section about editors and pagers
2570 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2571 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2572 - added section about device files
2573 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2574 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2575 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2577 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2578 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2579 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2580 - Added new section about obsolete names
2581 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2582 * Fixed package's description
2584 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2586 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2588 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2590 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2592 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2594 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2595 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2596 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2597 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2599 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2601 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2603 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2604 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2605 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2607 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2608 and upload it "byhand" too.
2610 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2612 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2615 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2616 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2617 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2618 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2619 functionality must not have the same name.
2620 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2621 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2622 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2623 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2624 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2625 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2626 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2628 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2629 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2630 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2631 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2632 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2633 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2634 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2635 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2638 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2640 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2642 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2644 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2645 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2646 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2647 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2648 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2651 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2653 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2655 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2657 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2658 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2659 description of deb file format.
2660 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2661 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2663 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2665 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2666 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2668 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2670 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2672 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2673 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2674 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2675 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2676 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2677 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2678 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2679 packages in section on Procedure
2680 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2681 a package maintainer
2682 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2683 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2684 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2686 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2687 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2688 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2689 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2690 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2691 on various shlib files
2692 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2693 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2694 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2696 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2698 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2700 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2701 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2702 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2704 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2705 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2706 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2707 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2708 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2710 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2712 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2714 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2716 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2718 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2719 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2720 compatibility go in contrib.
2722 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2723 instructions in policy manual.
2724 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2727 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2729 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2731 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2732 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2733 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2734 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2736 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2737 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2740 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2742 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2744 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2745 * More detail about changelog format names.
2747 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2748 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2752 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2754 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2756 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2758 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2760 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2762 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2764 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2766 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2767 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2768 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2770 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2772 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2774 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2776 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2778 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2782 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100