1 debian-policy (3.8.5.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
7 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
10 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
11 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
12 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
13 and distribution license' (three times).
14 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
15 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
16 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
17 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
18 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
20 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
22 Proposed by Santiago Vila
23 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
24 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
25 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
26 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
30 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
31 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
32 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
33 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
35 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
36 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
37 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
38 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
39 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
41 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
42 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
43 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
44 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
45 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
46 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
47 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
48 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
49 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
50 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
51 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
52 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
53 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
54 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
56 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Mon, 31 May 2010 20:00:28 +0200
58 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
61 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
62 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
64 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
65 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
69 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
72 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
73 Wording: Steve Langasek.
74 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
75 Seconded: Julien Cristau
79 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
80 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
81 Seconded: Russ Allbery
82 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
85 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
86 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
87 Seconded: Russ Allbery
89 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
90 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
91 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
92 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
93 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
94 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
95 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
96 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
97 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
99 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
100 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
101 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
102 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
103 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
104 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
105 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
106 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
107 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
108 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
109 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
110 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
111 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
112 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
113 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
114 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
116 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
117 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
118 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
119 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
120 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
122 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
125 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
126 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
127 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
128 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
129 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
130 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
133 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
135 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
137 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
138 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
139 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
140 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
142 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
143 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
144 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
145 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
147 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
148 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
149 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
150 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
152 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
153 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
154 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
155 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
156 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
157 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
159 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
160 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
161 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
162 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
163 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
165 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
166 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
167 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
168 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
170 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
171 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
172 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
173 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
175 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
176 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
177 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
178 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
180 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
181 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
182 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
183 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
185 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
186 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
187 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
188 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
190 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
191 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
192 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
193 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
194 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
195 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
196 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
197 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
198 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
199 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
200 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
201 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
202 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
203 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
204 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
206 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
207 Source field descriptions.
208 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
209 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
210 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
211 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
212 description says otherwise.
214 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
216 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
219 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
220 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
221 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
222 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
223 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
224 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
226 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
227 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
228 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
229 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
231 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
232 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
233 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
234 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
236 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
237 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
238 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
239 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
241 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
242 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
243 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
244 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
248 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
249 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
250 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
251 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
252 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
254 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
255 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
256 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
257 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
259 * Add myself to Uploaders.
262 * Add myself to Uploaders.
263 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
265 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
266 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
267 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
269 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
271 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
273 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
274 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
275 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
276 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
278 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
279 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
280 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
281 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
283 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
284 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
285 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
286 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
288 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
289 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
290 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
291 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
293 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
294 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
295 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
296 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
298 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
299 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
300 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
301 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
303 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
304 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
305 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
306 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
308 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
309 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
310 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
311 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
313 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
314 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
315 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
316 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
318 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
319 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
320 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
321 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
323 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
324 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
325 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
326 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
327 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
329 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
330 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
331 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
332 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
333 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
334 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
335 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
336 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
337 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
338 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
339 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
340 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
341 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
342 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
343 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
344 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
345 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
346 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
347 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
348 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
349 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
350 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
351 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
352 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
353 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
354 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
355 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
356 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
357 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
358 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
360 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
361 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
362 links was completed long ago.
363 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
365 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
367 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
369 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
370 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
372 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
374 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
376 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
377 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
378 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
379 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
380 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
381 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
382 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
383 Millan (Closes: #209008).
384 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
385 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
387 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
389 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
391 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
392 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
393 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
394 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
395 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
396 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
397 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
399 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
400 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
401 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
402 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
404 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
405 Küster (Closes: #403391).
406 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
407 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
408 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
409 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
410 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
411 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
412 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
413 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
414 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
415 Closes: #186700, #458910
416 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
417 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
418 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
420 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
421 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
422 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
423 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
424 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
425 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
426 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
427 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
429 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
430 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
432 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
433 * Add an md5sums control file.
434 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
435 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
436 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
437 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
438 currently part of policy.
439 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
440 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
441 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
444 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
446 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
448 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
449 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
450 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
451 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
452 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
453 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
454 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
455 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
456 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
457 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
458 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
459 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
460 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
461 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
462 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
463 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
465 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
467 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
468 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
469 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
471 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
472 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
473 list?" (Closes: #412634).
474 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
475 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
476 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
477 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
478 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
479 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
480 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
481 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
482 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
483 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
484 debconf specification.
485 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
486 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
488 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
490 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
492 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
493 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
494 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
495 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
496 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
498 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
500 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
501 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
502 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
503 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
504 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
506 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
507 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
508 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
509 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
510 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
511 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
512 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
513 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
514 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
515 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
516 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
517 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
518 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
519 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
520 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
521 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
523 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
525 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
526 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
527 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
528 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
529 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
530 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
531 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
532 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
534 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
536 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
538 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
539 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
540 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
541 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
542 Polo (Closes: #372497).
543 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
544 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
546 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
547 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
548 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
549 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
550 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
551 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
552 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
553 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
554 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
555 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
557 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
558 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
559 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
560 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
561 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
562 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
564 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
566 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
568 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
569 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
570 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
571 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
573 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
574 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
576 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
578 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
580 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
581 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
582 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
583 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
584 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
585 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
586 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
587 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
588 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
589 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
591 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
592 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
593 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
594 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
595 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
596 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
597 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
598 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
599 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
600 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
601 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
604 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
606 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
608 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
609 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
610 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
611 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
612 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
613 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
614 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
615 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
616 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
617 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
618 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
619 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
620 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
621 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
622 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
623 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
624 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
625 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
626 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
627 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
628 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
629 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
630 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
631 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
632 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
633 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
634 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
635 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
637 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
638 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
639 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
640 Hess (Closes: #362247).
641 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
642 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
643 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
644 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
645 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
646 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
647 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
648 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
649 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
650 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
651 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
652 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
654 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
655 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
657 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
658 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
659 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
660 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
661 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
662 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
663 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
664 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
665 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
666 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
667 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
669 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
671 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
674 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
675 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
676 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
677 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
678 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
679 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
680 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
681 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
682 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
683 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
684 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
685 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
686 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
688 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
689 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
690 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
691 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
692 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
693 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
694 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
695 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
696 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
697 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
698 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
699 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
700 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
701 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
702 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
703 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
704 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
705 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
706 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
709 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
711 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
713 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
714 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
715 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
716 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
718 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
719 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
720 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
721 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
723 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
725 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
728 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
729 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
730 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
731 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
732 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
733 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
734 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
735 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
736 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
737 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
739 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
740 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
741 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
743 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
744 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
745 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
746 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
747 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
748 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
749 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
751 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
752 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
753 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
754 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
756 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
757 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
758 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
759 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
760 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
761 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
762 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
763 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
765 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
766 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
767 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
768 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
769 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
770 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
771 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
772 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
773 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
774 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
775 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
776 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
777 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
778 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
779 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
780 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
781 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
783 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
785 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
788 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
789 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
790 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
791 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
792 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
793 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
794 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
795 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
796 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
798 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
799 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
800 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
801 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
802 this section. closes: Bug#248618
803 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
804 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
805 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
806 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
807 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
808 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
809 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
810 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
811 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
812 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
813 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
814 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
816 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
817 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
818 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
821 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
822 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
823 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
825 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
826 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
827 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
828 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
829 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
830 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
832 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
833 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
835 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
836 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
837 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
838 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
839 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
840 Closes: #185943, #237049
842 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
844 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
847 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
850 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
851 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
852 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
853 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
854 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
855 running. closes: Bug#187250
856 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
857 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
858 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
859 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
860 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
861 user closes: Bug#176506
863 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
865 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
868 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
869 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
870 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
871 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
872 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
873 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
874 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
875 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
876 deb-building toolchain.
877 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
878 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
879 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
880 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
881 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
882 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
883 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
884 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
885 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
886 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
887 sections about changelog files.
889 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
890 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
891 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
892 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
893 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
894 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
896 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
897 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
898 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
899 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
900 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
901 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
902 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
903 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
904 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
905 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
906 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
907 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
908 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
909 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
910 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
911 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
912 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
913 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
914 for the restructuring
916 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
918 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
921 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
923 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
924 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
925 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
926 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
927 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
928 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
930 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
931 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
932 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
933 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
934 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
935 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
936 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
938 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
939 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
940 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
941 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
943 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
945 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
948 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
949 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
950 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
951 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
952 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
953 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
955 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
956 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
957 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
958 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
960 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
961 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
962 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
963 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
964 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
965 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
966 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
967 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
968 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
970 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
971 script should start it, closes: #60979
972 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
973 "should", closes: #170019
974 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
975 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
976 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
977 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
978 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
979 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
980 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
981 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
984 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
986 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
989 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
990 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
991 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
992 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
993 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
994 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
995 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
996 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
997 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
999 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1000 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1001 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1002 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1003 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1004 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1005 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1006 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1007 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1009 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1010 file, closes: Bug#65764
1012 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1014 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1016 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1017 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1018 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1019 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1020 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1021 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1022 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1023 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1024 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1025 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1026 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1027 details. closes: Bug#133030
1028 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1029 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1030 parts of Bug#161455.
1032 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1034 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1037 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1038 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1039 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1040 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1041 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1042 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1043 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1044 not. closes: Bug#139820
1045 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1046 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1047 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1048 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1049 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1050 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1051 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1052 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1053 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1054 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1056 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1058 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1059 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1060 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1061 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1062 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1063 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1064 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1065 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1066 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1067 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1068 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1069 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1070 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1071 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1072 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1073 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1074 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1075 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1076 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1077 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1079 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1080 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1081 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1082 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1083 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1084 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1085 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1087 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1088 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1089 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1090 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1091 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1092 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1093 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1094 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1095 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1097 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1099 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1102 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1103 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1104 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1105 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1106 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1107 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1108 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1109 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1110 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1111 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1112 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1113 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1114 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1115 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1116 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1117 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1118 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1119 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1120 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1121 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1122 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1123 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1125 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1127 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1130 medium, high, emergency.
1131 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1132 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1133 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1134 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1135 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1138 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1139 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1140 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1142 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1143 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1144 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1145 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1146 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1147 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1148 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1151 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1153 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1156 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1157 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1158 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1160 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1161 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1162 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1163 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1164 debian/rules to do this
1165 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1166 patches are incorporated upstream
1167 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1168 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1169 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1170 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1171 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1172 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1174 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1175 system closes: Bug#91249
1176 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1177 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1178 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1179 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1180 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1181 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1182 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1183 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1184 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1185 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1186 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1187 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1188 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1190 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1192 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1194 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1195 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1196 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1197 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1199 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1200 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1201 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1203 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1206 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1208 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1210 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1211 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1212 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1213 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1214 package for the time being
1215 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1216 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1217 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1218 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1219 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1220 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1221 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1222 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1223 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1224 Build-Depends arch syntax
1225 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1227 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1228 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1230 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1231 from policy maintenance duties.
1232 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1233 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1235 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1237 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1241 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1243 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1246 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1247 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1248 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1249 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1250 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1251 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1252 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1253 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1254 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1255 minor version number for this
1256 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1257 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1258 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1259 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1260 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1261 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1262 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1263 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1264 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1266 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1268 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1270 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1271 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1272 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1273 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1274 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1276 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1278 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1279 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1280 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1281 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1282 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1283 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1284 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1285 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1286 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1287 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1288 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1289 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1290 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1291 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1292 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1293 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1296 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1298 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1300 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1301 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1303 * Document the Enhances relationship
1304 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1305 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1306 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1307 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1308 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1309 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1311 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1313 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1314 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1315 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1316 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1318 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1319 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1320 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1321 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1322 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1324 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1326 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1329 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1330 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1332 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1333 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1334 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1335 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1336 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1337 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1338 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1339 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1340 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1342 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1344 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1346 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1349 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1350 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1351 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1352 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1353 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1354 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1355 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1356 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1357 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1358 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1359 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1360 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1361 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1362 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1363 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1364 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1365 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1366 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1367 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1368 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1369 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1371 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1372 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1374 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1376 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1379 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1380 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1381 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1382 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1383 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1384 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1385 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1386 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1387 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1388 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1389 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1390 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1391 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1392 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1393 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1394 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1395 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1396 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1397 list closes: Bug#53756
1398 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1399 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1400 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1401 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1402 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1403 policy closes: Bug#53760
1404 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1405 policy closes: Bug#53761
1406 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1407 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1408 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1409 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1410 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1411 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1412 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1413 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1414 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1415 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1416 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1418 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1419 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1420 to install with older fileutils.
1421 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1422 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1423 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1424 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1426 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1427 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1429 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1431 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1434 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1436 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1438 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1440 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1441 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1443 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1446 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1449 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1451 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1453 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1455 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1458 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1460 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1462 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1465 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1466 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1467 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1468 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1469 directoried (closes: #41547)
1470 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1471 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1472 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1473 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1474 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1475 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1476 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1477 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1478 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1479 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1480 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1482 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1483 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1484 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1485 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1486 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1487 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1488 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1490 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1491 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1492 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1493 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1495 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1497 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1499 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1500 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1502 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1504 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1507 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1509 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1511 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1513 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1514 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1516 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1517 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1518 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1519 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1520 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1521 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1522 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1523 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1524 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1525 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1526 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1527 this closes: Bug#38612
1528 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
1529 before. closes: Bug#40864
1531 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
1533 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1535 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
1536 officially uploaded.
1537 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
1539 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
1540 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
1541 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
1543 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
1544 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
1545 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
1546 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
1547 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
1548 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
1550 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
1551 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
1552 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
1554 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
1556 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
1557 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
1558 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
1559 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
1560 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
1562 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
1564 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1566 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
1567 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
1568 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
1569 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
1570 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
1571 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
1572 there). closes: Bug#34233
1573 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
1574 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
1575 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
1576 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
1577 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
1579 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
1581 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1583 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
1584 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
1585 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
1586 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
1589 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
1590 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
1591 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
1592 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
1593 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
1596 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
1597 number. closes: BUG#25911
1599 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
1600 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
1601 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
1602 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
1603 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
1604 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
1606 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
1607 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
1608 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
1611 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
1612 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
1613 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
1615 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
1616 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
1617 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
1618 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
1620 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
1621 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
1622 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
1624 * Make the package optional, not extra.
1626 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
1627 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
1628 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
1629 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
1630 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
1631 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
1632 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
1633 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
1636 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
1638 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
1639 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
1642 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
1644 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
1648 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
1650 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
1653 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
1654 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
1655 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
1656 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
1657 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
1658 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
1659 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
1661 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
1662 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
1664 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
1666 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1668 * non-maintainer release
1669 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
1670 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
1672 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
1673 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
1674 * no content changes
1675 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
1677 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
1679 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1683 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
1685 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1687 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1689 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
1690 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1691 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
1693 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
1694 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
1696 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
1697 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
1698 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
1699 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
1701 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
1702 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
1703 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
1704 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
1705 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
1706 and restart options and to comply with the console message
1707 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
1709 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
1710 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
1711 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
1714 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1715 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
1716 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
1718 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
1719 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
1720 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
1722 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1723 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
1725 * New version numbering scheme:
1727 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
1728 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
1729 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
1732 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
1733 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
1734 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
1735 differ between the manuals.
1737 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
1738 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
1739 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
1740 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
1742 * Packaging changes:
1744 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
1745 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
1747 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
1749 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
1751 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
1755 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
1756 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
1757 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
1759 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
1760 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
1763 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
1764 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
1765 file extension as the referenced file
1767 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
1768 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
1770 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
1771 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
1772 start, stop, restart, force-reload
1773 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
1776 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
1777 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
1778 be installed into /etc/cron.d
1780 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
1781 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
1782 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
1783 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
1786 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
1787 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
1790 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
1791 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
1792 reasonable default configuration
1794 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
1795 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
1796 by all news servers and clients
1798 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
1799 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
1800 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
1801 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
1802 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
1804 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
1805 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
1808 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
1810 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1811 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
1813 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
1816 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
1817 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
1819 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
1820 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
1822 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
1824 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
1826 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1828 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1829 - X library package is now called xlib6g
1830 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1831 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
1833 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
1835 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
1836 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
1837 * Don't use debstd anymore
1839 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
1841 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1844 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
1845 contrib/non-free policy
1846 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
1847 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
1848 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
1849 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
1850 - new section about `Daemons'
1851 - updated section about `Configuration files'
1852 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
1853 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
1854 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
1855 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
1856 * Paper about libc6 migration:
1857 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
1858 * SGML source code included in package
1859 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
1861 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
1863 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1865 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
1866 - completely reworked structure
1867 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
1868 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
1869 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
1870 - removed all those ugly footnotes
1871 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
1872 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
1873 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
1874 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
1875 - mention "orphaned packages"
1876 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
1877 distributions' policy
1878 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
1879 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
1880 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
1881 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
1882 - added section about arch spec strings
1883 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
1884 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
1885 - added section about "menus"
1886 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
1887 the new documentation policy soon
1888 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
1889 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
1891 - added section about editors and pagers
1892 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
1893 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
1894 - added section about device files
1895 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
1896 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
1897 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
1899 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
1900 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
1901 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
1902 - Added new section about obsolete names
1903 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
1904 * Fixed package's description
1906 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
1908 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1910 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
1912 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
1914 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1916 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
1917 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
1918 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
1919 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
1921 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
1923 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1925 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
1926 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
1927 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
1929 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
1930 and upload it "byhand" too.
1932 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
1934 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
1938 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
1939 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
1940 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
1941 functionality must not have the same name.
1942 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
1943 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
1944 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
1945 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
1946 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
1947 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
1948 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
1950 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
1951 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
1952 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
1953 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
1954 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
1955 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
1956 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
1957 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
1960 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
1962 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
1964 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
1966 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
1967 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
1968 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
1969 a package into. (Guy Maor)
1970 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
1973 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
1975 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
1977 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
1979 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
1980 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
1981 description of deb file format.
1982 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
1983 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
1985 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
1987 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
1988 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
1990 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
1992 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
1994 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
1995 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
1996 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
1997 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
1998 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
1999 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2000 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2001 packages in section on Procedure
2002 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2003 a package maintainer
2004 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2005 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2006 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2008 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2009 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2010 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2011 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2012 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2013 on various shlib files
2014 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2015 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2016 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2018 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2020 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2022 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2023 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2024 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2026 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2027 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2028 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2029 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2030 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2032 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2034 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2036 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2038 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2040 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2041 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2042 compatibility go in contrib.
2044 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2045 instructions in policy manual.
2046 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2049 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2051 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2053 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2054 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2055 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2056 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2058 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2059 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2062 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2064 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2066 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2067 * More detail about changelog format names.
2069 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2070 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2074 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2076 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2078 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2080 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2082 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2084 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2086 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2088 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2089 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2090 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2092 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2094 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2096 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2098 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2100 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2104 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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