1 debian-policy (3.9.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
3 * upgrading-checklist.sgml: remove spurious 'details in' leftover from
4 the HTML transition. Closes: #740100. Thanks Jakub Wilk.
6 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 25 Feb 2014 20:56:59 +0100
8 debian-policy (3.9.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Policy: Document the Package-List field.
11 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
12 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
13 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
15 * Policy: DM-Upload-Allowed is now obsolete
16 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
17 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
18 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
19 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
21 * Policy: Checksums-{Sha1,Sha256} are now mandatory
22 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
23 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
24 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
26 * Policy: Requirements for udebs are not well documented yet
27 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
28 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
29 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
30 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
31 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
33 * Policy: install-info is run by a dpkg trigger.
34 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
35 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
36 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
38 * Policy: Stop recommending to serve HTML documents from /usr/share/doc.
39 Wording: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>
40 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
41 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
43 * Policy: File names encoded in UTF-8. ASCII preferred and mandatory in PATH.
44 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
45 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
46 Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
48 * Policy: Document the Dgit field for Debian Source Control files.
49 Wording: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
50 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
51 Seconded: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
52 Seconded: Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox@debian.org>
54 * Policy: Remove the exception to the FHS for the /selinux directory.
55 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
56 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
57 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
59 * Policy: on upgrades, recommend removing obsolete unchanged conf. files.
60 Wording: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
61 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
62 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
64 * Policy: Control data fields must not start with a hyphen character.
65 Wording: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
66 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
67 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
69 * debconf_spec: Document the 'escape' capability.
70 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
71 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
72 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
74 * virtual-package-names-list: removed mp3-decoder and mp3-encoder.
75 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
76 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
77 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
79 * Clean outdated mentions of dpkg commands in appendix. Thanks, Guillem Jover
80 * Remove outdated mention of dselect documentation.
81 Closes: #700574. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
82 * Update dak reference from old katie name.
83 Closes: #700536. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
84 * Fix typo in 8.6.4. Thanks, Raúl Benencia. (Closes: #691352)
85 * Fix typo in 8.6.4.1. Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>.
86 * Added a warning in appendix G about diverting conffiles.
87 Closes: #703022. Thanks, Torsten Jerzembeck.
88 * List build-arch and build-indep with the other required targets in 4.9.
89 Closes: #704657. Thanks, Philipp Hahn.
90 * Replaced non-standard names of dpkg states by normalised ones.
92 * Clarify what is meant by "compressed" in section 10.5. (Closes: #676784)
93 * Packaging: use the VCS URLs proposed by Lintian.
94 * Packaging: normalised debian/control with the tool "config-model-edit".
95 * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
97 -- Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> Mon, 28 Oct 2013 09:40:48 +0900
99 debian-policy (3.9.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
101 * build-arch and build-indep are now mandatory targets in debian/rules,
102 implementing the Technical Committee ruling in #629385. Wording
103 review by Jonathan Nieder, Jakub Wilk, and Roger Leigh.
105 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding tasks.
106 Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #670429)
107 * Policy: Copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8
108 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
109 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
110 Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
111 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
113 * Policy: Prohibit deprecated < and > relations
114 Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
115 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
116 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
118 * Policy: Document the Built-Using field
119 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
120 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
121 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
123 * Policy: Document the Vcs-* fields
124 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
125 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
126 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
127 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
128 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
130 * Policy: Document restrictions on the use of /run for wheezy
131 Wording: Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
132 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
133 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
135 * Policy: Rewrite shared library dependency policy to document symbols
136 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
137 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
138 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
139 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
141 * Policy: Document generic and upstart-specific init system requirements
142 Wording: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
143 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
144 Seconded: Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
146 * Policy: Rely on triggers instead of calling update-mime
147 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
148 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
149 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
152 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:35:36 -0700
154 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
156 * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source
157 package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)
158 * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.
159 Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)
160 and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and
162 * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking
163 whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending
164 dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)
165 * Remove the ambiguous word "installed" when requiring that the location
166 of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)
167 * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not
168 contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)
169 * Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided
170 (currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist
171 or perform the equivalent actions. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some
172 of the wording. (Closes: #601839)
173 * Clearly state that "yes" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed
174 and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)
175 * Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to
176 reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam
177 Morris. (Closes: #658009)
178 * Fix the legal notice in copyright-format to not refer to a nonexistent
180 * Embed the Debian Policy version and build date in the debconf
181 specification and the copyright-format document. We'll make
182 non-normative changes without updating other version numbers, and it's
183 good to know which version one is looking at.
184 * Fix some whitespace issues in the debconf specification articleinfo.
185 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
186 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
187 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
188 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
189 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
190 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
192 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
193 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
194 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
195 * Expand package long description to include all documents.
196 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
198 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
199 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
200 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
202 * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0, and in the process
203 add the license information for the documents other than Policy itself
204 and the FHS. Note the implication of the GPL source code requirement
205 for distributing generated versions of the Policy documents.
207 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:02:12 -0800
209 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
212 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
213 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
214 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
215 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
216 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
217 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
218 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
219 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
220 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
221 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
222 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
223 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
224 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
225 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
227 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
228 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
229 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
230 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
231 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
233 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
234 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
235 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
236 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
237 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
238 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
240 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
241 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
242 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
243 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
245 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
246 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
247 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
248 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
249 Closes: #620870, #532120
250 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
251 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
252 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
253 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
254 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
256 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
257 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
258 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
259 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
260 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
262 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
263 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
264 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
265 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
266 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
268 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
269 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
270 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
271 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
272 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
273 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
274 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
275 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
276 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
277 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
278 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
279 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
280 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
281 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
282 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
283 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
285 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
287 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
288 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
289 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
290 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
291 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
292 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
293 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
294 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
295 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
296 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
299 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
301 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
302 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
303 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
304 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
305 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
306 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
307 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
309 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
310 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
312 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
313 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
314 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
315 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
316 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
318 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
320 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
321 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
322 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
324 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
325 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
326 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
327 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
329 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
330 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
331 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
333 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
334 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
335 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
336 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
337 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
338 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
340 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
341 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
342 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
343 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
345 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
346 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
347 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
348 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
349 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
351 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
352 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
353 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
354 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
355 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
357 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
358 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
359 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
360 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
362 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
363 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
364 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
365 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
368 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
370 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
372 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
373 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
374 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
375 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
376 Closes: #459868, #581011
377 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
378 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
379 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
380 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
382 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
383 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
384 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
385 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
387 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
388 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
389 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
390 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
392 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
393 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
394 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
395 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
397 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
398 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
399 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
400 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
401 Closes: #501930, #593909
402 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
403 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
404 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
405 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
407 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
408 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
409 machine. (Closes: #591857)
410 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
411 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
412 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
413 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
414 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
415 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
416 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
417 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
418 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
419 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
421 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
422 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
423 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
424 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
425 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
426 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
427 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
428 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
429 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
430 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
431 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
432 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
433 than the version in oldstable.
434 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
435 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
436 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
437 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
438 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
439 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
440 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
441 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
442 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
443 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
444 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
445 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
446 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
447 package. (Closes: #609160)
449 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
451 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
453 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
454 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
455 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
456 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
457 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
459 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
460 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
461 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
462 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
464 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
465 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
466 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
467 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
469 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
470 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
471 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
472 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
473 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
474 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
475 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
476 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
477 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
479 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
480 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
481 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
482 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
484 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
485 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
486 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
487 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
489 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
490 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
491 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
492 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
494 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
495 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
496 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
497 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
499 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
500 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
501 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
502 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
503 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
505 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
506 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
507 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
508 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
509 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
511 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
512 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
513 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
514 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
516 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
517 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
518 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
519 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
521 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
522 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
523 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
524 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
526 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
527 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
528 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
529 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
531 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
532 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
533 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
534 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
536 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
537 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
538 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
539 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
541 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
543 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
544 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
545 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
546 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
547 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
548 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
549 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
550 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
551 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
553 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
554 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
555 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
556 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
557 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
558 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
560 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
562 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
565 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
568 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
571 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
572 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
573 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
574 and distribution license' (three times).
575 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
576 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
577 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
578 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
579 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
581 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
583 Proposed by Santiago Vila
584 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
585 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
586 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
587 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
591 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
592 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
593 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
594 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
596 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
597 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
598 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
599 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
600 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
601 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
603 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
604 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
605 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
606 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
608 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
609 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
610 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
611 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
612 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
614 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
615 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
616 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
617 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
618 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
620 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
621 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
622 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
623 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
624 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
626 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
627 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
628 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
629 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
631 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
632 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
633 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
634 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
635 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
637 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
638 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
639 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
640 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
642 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
643 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
644 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
645 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
647 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
648 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
649 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
650 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
651 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
653 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
654 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
655 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
656 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
658 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
659 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
660 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
661 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
662 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
664 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
665 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
666 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
667 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
669 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
670 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
671 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
672 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
673 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
674 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
675 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
676 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
677 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
678 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
679 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
680 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
681 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
682 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
683 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
684 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
685 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
686 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
687 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
688 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
689 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
690 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
691 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
692 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
693 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
694 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
695 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
696 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
697 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
698 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
699 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
700 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
702 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
704 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
706 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
709 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
710 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
712 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
713 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
717 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
720 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
721 Wording: Steve Langasek.
722 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
723 Seconded: Julien Cristau
724 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
727 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
728 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
729 Seconded: Russ Allbery
730 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
733 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
734 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
735 Seconded: Russ Allbery
737 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
738 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
739 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
740 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
741 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
742 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
743 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
744 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
745 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
747 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
748 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
749 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
750 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
751 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
752 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
753 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
754 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
755 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
756 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
757 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
758 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
759 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
760 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
761 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
762 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
764 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
765 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
766 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
767 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
768 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
770 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
773 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
774 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
775 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
776 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
777 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
778 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
781 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
783 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
785 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
786 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
787 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
788 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
790 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
791 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
792 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
793 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
795 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
796 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
797 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
798 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
800 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
801 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
802 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
803 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
804 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
805 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
807 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
808 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
809 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
810 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
811 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
813 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
814 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
815 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
816 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
818 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
819 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
820 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
821 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
823 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
824 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
825 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
826 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
828 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
829 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
830 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
831 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
833 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
834 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
835 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
836 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
838 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
839 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
840 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
841 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
842 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
843 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
844 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
845 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
846 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
847 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
848 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
849 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
850 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
851 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
852 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
854 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
855 Source field descriptions.
856 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
857 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
858 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
859 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
860 description says otherwise.
862 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
864 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
867 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
868 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
869 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
870 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
871 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
872 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
874 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
875 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
876 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
877 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
879 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
880 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
881 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
882 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
884 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
885 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
886 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
887 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
889 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
890 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
891 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
892 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
896 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
897 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
898 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
899 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
900 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
902 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
903 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
904 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
905 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
907 * Add myself to Uploaders.
910 * Add myself to Uploaders.
911 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
913 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
914 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
915 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
917 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
919 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
921 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
922 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
923 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
924 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
926 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
927 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
928 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
929 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
931 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
932 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
933 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
934 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
936 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
937 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
938 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
939 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
941 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
942 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
943 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
944 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
946 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
947 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
948 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
949 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
951 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
952 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
953 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
954 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
956 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
957 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
958 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
959 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
961 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
962 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
963 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
964 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
966 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
967 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
968 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
969 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
971 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
972 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
973 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
974 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
975 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
977 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
978 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
979 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
980 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
981 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
982 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
983 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
984 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
985 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
986 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
987 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
988 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
989 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
990 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
991 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
992 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
993 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
994 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
995 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
996 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
997 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
998 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
999 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
1000 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
1001 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
1002 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
1003 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
1004 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
1005 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
1006 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
1008 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
1009 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
1010 links was completed long ago.
1011 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
1013 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
1015 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
1018 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
1020 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
1022 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
1025 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
1026 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
1027 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
1028 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
1029 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
1030 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
1031 Millan (Closes: #209008).
1032 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
1033 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
1035 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
1037 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
1039 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
1040 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
1041 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
1042 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
1043 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
1044 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
1045 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
1047 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
1048 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
1049 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
1050 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
1052 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
1053 Küster (Closes: #403391).
1054 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
1055 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
1056 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
1057 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
1058 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
1059 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1060 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1061 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
1062 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1063 Closes: #186700, #458910
1064 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
1065 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1066 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1068 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
1069 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
1070 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
1071 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
1072 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
1073 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
1074 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
1075 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
1077 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
1078 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
1080 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
1081 * Add an md5sums control file.
1082 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
1083 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
1084 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
1085 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
1086 currently part of policy.
1087 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
1088 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
1089 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
1092 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
1094 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1096 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
1097 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1098 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
1099 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
1100 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
1101 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
1102 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
1103 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
1104 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
1105 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
1106 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
1107 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
1108 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
1109 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
1110 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
1111 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
1113 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
1115 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
1116 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
1117 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
1119 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
1120 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
1121 list?" (Closes: #412634).
1122 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
1123 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
1124 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
1125 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
1126 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
1127 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
1128 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
1129 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
1130 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
1131 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
1132 debconf specification.
1133 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
1134 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
1136 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
1138 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
1141 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
1142 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
1143 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
1144 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
1146 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
1148 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
1149 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
1150 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
1151 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
1152 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1154 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
1155 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
1156 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
1157 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
1158 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
1159 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
1160 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
1161 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
1162 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
1163 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
1164 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
1165 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
1166 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
1167 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
1168 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
1169 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1171 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1173 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
1174 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
1175 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1176 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
1177 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
1178 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
1179 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
1180 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1182 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1184 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1187 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1188 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1189 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1190 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1191 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1192 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1194 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1195 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1196 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1197 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1198 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1199 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1200 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1201 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1202 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1203 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1205 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1206 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1207 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1208 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1209 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1210 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1212 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1214 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1217 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1218 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1219 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1221 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1222 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1224 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1226 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1229 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1230 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1231 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1232 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1233 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1234 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1235 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1236 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1237 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1239 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1240 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1241 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1242 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1243 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1244 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1245 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1246 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1247 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1248 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1249 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1252 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1254 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1257 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1258 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1259 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1260 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1261 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1262 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1263 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1264 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1265 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1266 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1267 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1268 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1269 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1270 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1271 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1272 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1273 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1274 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1275 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1276 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1277 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1278 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1279 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1280 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1281 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1282 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1283 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1285 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1286 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1287 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1288 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1289 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1290 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1291 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1292 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1293 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1294 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1295 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1296 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1297 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1298 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1299 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1300 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1302 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1303 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1305 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1306 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1307 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1308 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1309 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1310 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1311 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1312 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1313 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1314 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1315 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1317 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1319 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1323 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1324 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1325 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1326 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1327 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1328 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1329 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1330 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1331 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1332 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1333 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1334 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1336 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1337 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1338 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1339 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1340 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1341 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1342 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1343 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1344 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1345 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1346 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1347 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1348 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1349 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1350 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1351 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1352 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1353 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1354 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1357 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1359 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1362 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1363 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1364 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1366 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1367 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1368 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1369 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1371 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1373 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1377 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1378 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1379 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1380 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1381 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1382 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1383 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1384 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1385 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1387 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1388 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1389 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1391 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1392 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1393 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1394 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1395 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1396 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1397 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1399 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1400 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1401 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1402 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1404 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1405 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1406 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1407 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1408 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1409 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1410 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1411 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1413 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1414 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1415 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1416 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1417 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1418 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1419 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1420 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1421 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1422 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1423 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1424 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1425 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1426 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1427 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1428 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1429 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1431 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1433 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1437 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1438 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1439 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1440 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1441 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1442 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1443 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1444 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1446 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1447 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1448 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1449 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1450 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1451 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1452 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1453 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1454 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1455 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1456 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1457 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1458 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1459 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1460 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1461 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1462 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1464 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1465 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1466 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1469 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1470 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1471 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1473 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1474 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1475 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1476 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1477 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1478 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1480 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1481 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1483 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1484 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1485 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1486 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1487 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1488 Closes: #185943, #237049
1490 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1492 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1495 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1498 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1499 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1500 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1501 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1502 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1503 running. closes: Bug#187250
1504 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1505 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1506 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1507 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1508 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1509 user closes: Bug#176506
1511 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1513 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1517 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1518 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1519 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1520 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1521 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1522 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1523 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1524 deb-building toolchain.
1525 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1526 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1527 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1528 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1529 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1530 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1531 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1532 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1533 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1534 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1535 sections about changelog files.
1537 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1538 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1539 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1540 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1541 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1542 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1544 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1545 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1546 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1547 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1548 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1549 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1550 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1551 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1552 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1553 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1554 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1555 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1556 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1557 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1558 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1559 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1560 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1561 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1562 for the restructuring
1564 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1566 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1571 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1572 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1573 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1574 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1575 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1576 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1578 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1579 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1580 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1581 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1582 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1583 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1584 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1586 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1587 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1588 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1589 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1591 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1593 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1597 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1598 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1599 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1600 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1601 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1603 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1604 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1605 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1606 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1608 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1609 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1610 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1611 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1612 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1613 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1614 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1615 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1616 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1617 offtopic stuff, too.
1618 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1619 script should start it, closes: #60979
1620 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1621 "should", closes: #170019
1622 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1623 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1624 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1625 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1626 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1627 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1628 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1629 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1632 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1634 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1638 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1639 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1640 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1641 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1642 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1643 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1644 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1645 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1647 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1648 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1649 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1650 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1651 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1652 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1653 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1654 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1655 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1657 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1658 file, closes: Bug#65764
1660 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1662 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1664 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1665 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1666 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1667 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1668 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1669 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1670 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1671 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1672 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1673 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1674 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1675 details. closes: Bug#133030
1676 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1677 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1678 parts of Bug#161455.
1680 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1682 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1685 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1686 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1687 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1688 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1689 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1690 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1691 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1692 not. closes: Bug#139820
1693 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1694 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1695 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1696 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1697 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1698 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1699 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1700 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1701 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1702 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1704 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1706 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1707 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1708 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1709 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1710 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1711 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1712 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1713 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1714 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1715 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1716 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1717 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1718 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1719 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1720 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1721 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1722 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1723 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1724 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1725 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1727 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1728 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1729 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1730 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1731 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1732 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1733 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1735 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1736 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1737 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1738 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1739 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1740 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1741 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1742 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1743 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1745 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1747 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1749 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1750 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1751 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1752 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1753 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1754 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1755 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1756 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1757 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1758 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1759 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1760 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1761 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1762 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1763 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1764 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1765 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1766 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1767 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1768 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1769 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1770 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1771 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1773 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1775 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1777 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1778 medium, high, emergency.
1779 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1780 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1781 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1782 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1783 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1786 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1787 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1788 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1790 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1791 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1792 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1793 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1794 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1795 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1796 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1799 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1801 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1803 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1804 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1805 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1806 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1808 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1809 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1810 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1811 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1812 debian/rules to do this
1813 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1814 patches are incorporated upstream
1815 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1816 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1817 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1818 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1819 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1820 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1822 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1823 system closes: Bug#91249
1824 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1825 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1826 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1827 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1828 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1829 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1830 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1831 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1832 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1833 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1834 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1835 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1836 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1838 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1840 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1843 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1844 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1845 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1847 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1848 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1849 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1851 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1854 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1856 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1859 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1860 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1861 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1862 package for the time being
1863 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1864 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1865 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1866 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1867 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1868 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1869 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1870 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1871 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1872 Build-Depends arch syntax
1873 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1875 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1876 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1878 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1879 from policy maintenance duties.
1880 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1881 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1883 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1885 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1889 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1891 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1894 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1895 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1896 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1897 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1898 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1899 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1900 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1901 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1902 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1903 minor version number for this
1904 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1905 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1906 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1907 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1908 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1909 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1910 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1911 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1912 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1914 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1916 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1919 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1920 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1921 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1922 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1924 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1926 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1927 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1928 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1929 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1930 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1931 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1932 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1933 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1934 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1935 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1936 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1937 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1938 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1939 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1940 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1941 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1944 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1946 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1948 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1949 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1951 * Document the Enhances relationship
1952 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1953 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1954 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1955 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1956 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1957 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1959 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1961 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1962 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1963 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1964 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1966 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1967 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1968 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1969 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1970 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1972 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1974 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1977 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1978 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1980 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1981 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1982 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1983 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1984 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1985 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1986 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1987 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1988 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1990 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1992 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1994 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1996 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1997 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1998 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1999 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
2000 policy. closes: Bug#64437
2001 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
2002 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
2003 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
2004 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
2005 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
2006 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
2007 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
2008 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
2009 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
2010 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
2011 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
2012 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
2013 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
2014 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
2015 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
2016 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
2017 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
2019 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
2020 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
2022 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
2024 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
2027 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
2028 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
2029 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
2030 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
2031 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
2032 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
2033 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
2034 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
2035 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
2036 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
2037 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
2038 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
2039 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
2040 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
2041 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
2042 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
2043 alternative closes: Bug#53755
2044 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
2045 list closes: Bug#53756
2046 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
2047 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
2048 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
2049 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
2050 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
2051 policy closes: Bug#53760
2052 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
2053 policy closes: Bug#53761
2054 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
2055 that use X closes: Bug#53762
2056 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
2057 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
2058 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
2059 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
2060 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
2061 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
2062 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
2063 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
2064 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
2066 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
2067 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
2068 to install with older fileutils.
2069 * Installed FHS version 2.1
2070 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
2071 * Added FHS details to copyright file
2072 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
2074 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
2075 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
2077 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
2079 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
2082 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
2084 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
2086 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
2089 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
2091 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
2094 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
2097 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
2099 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
2101 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
2103 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2105 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
2106 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
2108 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
2110 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
2113 #45561, #42447, #48570)
2114 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
2115 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
2116 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
2117 directoried (closes: #41547)
2118 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
2119 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
2120 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
2121 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
2122 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
2123 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
2124 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
2125 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
2126 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
2127 package criteria (closes: #45318)
2128 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
2130 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
2131 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
2132 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
2133 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
2134 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
2135 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
2136 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
2138 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
2139 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
2140 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
2141 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
2143 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
2145 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
2147 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
2148 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
2150 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
2152 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2154 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
2155 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
2157 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
2159 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2161 * A few typos and omissions corrected
2162 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
2164 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
2165 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
2166 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
2167 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
2168 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
2169 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
2170 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
2171 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
2172 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
2173 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
2174 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
2175 this closes: Bug#38612
2176 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
2177 before. closes: Bug#40864
2179 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2181 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2183 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2184 officially uploaded.
2185 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2187 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2188 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2189 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2191 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2192 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2193 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2194 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2195 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2196 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2198 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2199 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2200 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2202 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2204 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2205 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2206 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2207 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2208 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2210 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2212 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2214 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2215 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2216 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2217 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2218 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2219 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2220 there). closes: Bug#34233
2221 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2222 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2223 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2224 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2225 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2227 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2229 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2232 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2233 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2234 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2237 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2238 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2239 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2240 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2241 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2244 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2245 number. closes: BUG#25911
2247 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2248 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2249 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2250 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2251 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2252 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2254 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2255 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2256 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2259 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2260 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2261 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2263 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2264 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2265 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2266 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2268 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2269 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2270 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2272 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2274 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2275 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2276 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2277 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2278 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2279 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2280 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2281 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2284 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2286 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2287 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2290 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2292 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2294 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2296 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2298 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2301 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2302 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2303 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2304 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2305 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2306 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2307 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2309 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2310 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2312 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2314 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2316 * non-maintainer release
2317 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2318 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2320 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2321 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2322 * no content changes
2323 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2325 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2327 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2331 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2333 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2335 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2337 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2338 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2339 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2341 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2342 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2344 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2345 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2346 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2347 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2349 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2350 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2351 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2352 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2353 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2354 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2355 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2357 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2358 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2359 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2362 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2363 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2364 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2366 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2367 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2368 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2370 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2371 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2373 * New version numbering scheme:
2375 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2376 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2377 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2380 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2381 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2382 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2383 differ between the manuals.
2385 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2386 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2387 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2388 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2390 * Packaging changes:
2392 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2393 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2395 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2397 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2399 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2403 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2404 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2405 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2407 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2408 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2411 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2412 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2413 file extension as the referenced file
2415 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2416 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2418 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2419 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2420 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2421 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2424 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2425 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2426 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2428 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2429 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2430 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2431 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2434 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2435 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2438 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2439 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2440 reasonable default configuration
2442 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2443 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2444 by all news servers and clients
2446 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2447 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2448 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2449 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2450 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2452 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2453 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2456 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2458 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2459 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2461 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2464 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2465 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2467 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2468 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2470 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2472 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2474 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2476 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2477 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2478 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2479 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2481 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2483 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2484 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2485 * Don't use debstd anymore
2487 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2489 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2491 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2492 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2493 contrib/non-free policy
2494 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2495 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2496 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2497 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2498 - new section about `Daemons'
2499 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2500 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2501 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2502 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2503 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2504 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2505 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2506 * SGML source code included in package
2507 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2509 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2511 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2513 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2514 - completely reworked structure
2515 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2516 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2517 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2518 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2519 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2520 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2521 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2522 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2523 - mention "orphaned packages"
2524 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2525 distributions' policy
2526 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2527 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2528 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2529 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2530 - added section about arch spec strings
2531 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2532 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2533 - added section about "menus"
2534 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2535 the new documentation policy soon
2536 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2537 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2539 - added section about editors and pagers
2540 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2541 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2542 - added section about device files
2543 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2544 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2545 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2547 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2548 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2549 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2550 - Added new section about obsolete names
2551 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2552 * Fixed package's description
2554 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2556 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2558 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2560 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2562 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2564 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2565 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2566 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2567 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2569 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2571 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2573 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2574 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2575 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2577 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2578 and upload it "byhand" too.
2580 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2582 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2586 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2587 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2588 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2589 functionality must not have the same name.
2590 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2591 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2592 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2593 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2594 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2595 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2596 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2598 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2599 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2600 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2601 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2602 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2603 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2604 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2605 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2608 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2610 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2612 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2614 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2615 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2616 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2617 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2618 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2621 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2623 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2625 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2627 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2628 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2629 description of deb file format.
2630 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2631 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2633 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2635 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2636 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2638 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2640 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2642 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2643 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2644 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2645 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2646 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2647 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2648 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2649 packages in section on Procedure
2650 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2651 a package maintainer
2652 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2653 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2654 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2656 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2657 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2658 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2659 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2660 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2661 on various shlib files
2662 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2663 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2664 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2666 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2668 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2670 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2671 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2672 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2674 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2675 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2676 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2677 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2678 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2680 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2682 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2684 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2686 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2688 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2689 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2690 compatibility go in contrib.
2692 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2693 instructions in policy manual.
2694 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2697 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2699 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2701 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2702 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2703 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2704 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2706 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2707 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2710 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2712 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2714 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2715 * More detail about changelog format names.
2717 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2718 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2722 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2724 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2726 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2728 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2730 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2732 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2734 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2736 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2737 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2738 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2740 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2742 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2744 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2746 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2748 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2752 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100