1 debian-policy (3.9.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
4 * upgrading-checklist.sgml: remove spurious 'details in' leftover from
5 the HTML transition. Closes: #740100. Thanks Jakub Wilk.
7 - Build-Depends emacs24-nox|emacs24 instead of emacs23. Closes: #753999
8 Thanks Gabriele Giacone.
9 * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
10 * Policy: [11.5.1] Web servers: Fix use of metasyntactic variables and
11 applications Closes: #737730. Thanks Olivier Berger.
12 * Policy: [5.6.21] Files: Fix typo "by" -> be. Closes: #753353.
13 Thanks Benedikt Wildenhain.
14 * Policy: Remove reference to DEHS (dead service)
15 Wording: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
16 Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
17 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
19 * Policy: Relax /usr/share FHS requirement for directories with mixed content.
20 Wording: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
21 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
22 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
23 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
24 Seconded: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>
26 * Perl Policy: @INC has /usr/lib/perl/5.18, not /usr/lib/perl/5.18.2
27 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
28 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
29 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
31 * Perl Policy: Explain %Config earlier
32 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
33 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
34 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
36 * Perl Policy: @INC changes for multiarch
37 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
38 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
39 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
41 * Perl Policy: Packages using Perl vendorarch directory need a perlapi-*
43 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
44 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
45 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
46 Seconded: Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>
48 * Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch headers directories
49 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
50 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
51 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
53 * Policy: Discourage statically linked binaries
54 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
55 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
56 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
58 * Policy: Clarify whose signature should go in debian/changelog (4.4)
59 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
60 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
61 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
63 * virtual-package-names-list: Update java runtime list
64 Wording: Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>
65 Seconded: Tony Mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
66 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
68 * virtual-package-names-list: Add httpd-wsgi
69 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
70 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
71 Seconded: Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org>
74 * Policy: Drop FHS requirement that /usr/local/lib<qual> exist when /lib<qual>
75 or /usr/lib<qual> does.
76 Wording: Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>
77 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
78 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
79 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
82 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Sat, 02 Aug 2014 22:04:19 +0200
84 debian-policy (3.9.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
86 * Policy: Document the Package-List field.
87 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
88 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
89 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
91 * Policy: DM-Upload-Allowed is now obsolete
92 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
93 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
94 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
95 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
97 * Policy: Checksums-{Sha1,Sha256} are now mandatory
98 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
99 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
100 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
102 * Policy: Requirements for udebs are not well documented yet
103 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
104 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
105 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
106 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
107 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
109 * Policy: install-info is run by a dpkg trigger.
110 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
111 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
112 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
114 * Policy: Stop recommending to serve HTML documents from /usr/share/doc.
115 Wording: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>
116 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
117 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
119 * Policy: File names encoded in UTF-8. ASCII preferred and mandatory in PATH.
120 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
121 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
122 Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
124 * Policy: Document the Dgit field for Debian Source Control files.
125 Wording: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
126 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
127 Seconded: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
128 Seconded: Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox@debian.org>
130 * Policy: Remove the exception to the FHS for the /selinux directory.
131 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
132 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
133 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
135 * Policy: on upgrades, recommend removing obsolete unchanged conf. files.
136 Wording: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
137 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
138 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
140 * Policy: Control data fields must not start with a hyphen character.
141 Wording: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
142 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
143 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
145 * debconf_spec: Document the 'escape' capability.
146 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
147 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
148 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
150 * virtual-package-names-list: removed mp3-decoder and mp3-encoder.
151 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
152 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
153 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
155 * Clean outdated mentions of dpkg commands in appendix. Thanks, Guillem Jover
156 * Remove outdated mention of dselect documentation.
157 Closes: #700574. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
158 * Update dak reference from old katie name.
159 Closes: #700536. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
160 * Fix typo in 8.6.4. Thanks, Raúl Benencia. (Closes: #691352)
161 * Fix typo in 8.6.4.1. Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>.
162 * Added a warning in appendix G about diverting conffiles.
163 Closes: #703022. Thanks, Torsten Jerzembeck.
164 * List build-arch and build-indep with the other required targets in 4.9.
165 Closes: #704657. Thanks, Philipp Hahn.
166 * Replaced non-standard names of dpkg states by normalised ones.
168 * Clarify what is meant by "compressed" in section 10.5. (Closes: #676784)
169 * Packaging: use the VCS URLs proposed by Lintian.
170 * Packaging: normalised debian/control with the tool "config-model-edit".
171 * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
173 -- Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> Mon, 28 Oct 2013 09:40:48 +0900
175 debian-policy (3.9.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
177 * build-arch and build-indep are now mandatory targets in debian/rules,
178 implementing the Technical Committee ruling in #629385. Wording
179 review by Jonathan Nieder, Jakub Wilk, and Roger Leigh.
181 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding tasks.
182 Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #670429)
183 * Policy: Copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8
184 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
185 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
186 Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
187 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
189 * Policy: Prohibit deprecated < and > relations
190 Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
191 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
192 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
194 * Policy: Document the Built-Using field
195 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
196 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
197 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
199 * Policy: Document the Vcs-* fields
200 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
201 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
202 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
203 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
204 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
206 * Policy: Document restrictions on the use of /run for wheezy
207 Wording: Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
208 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
209 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
211 * Policy: Rewrite shared library dependency policy to document symbols
212 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
213 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
214 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
215 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
217 * Policy: Document generic and upstart-specific init system requirements
218 Wording: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
219 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
220 Seconded: Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
222 * Policy: Rely on triggers instead of calling update-mime
223 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
224 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
225 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
228 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:35:36 -0700
230 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
232 * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source
233 package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)
234 * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.
235 Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)
236 and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and
238 * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking
239 whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending
240 dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)
241 * Remove the ambiguous word "installed" when requiring that the location
242 of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)
243 * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not
244 contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)
245 * Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided
246 (currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist
247 or perform the equivalent actions. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some
248 of the wording. (Closes: #601839)
249 * Clearly state that "yes" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed
250 and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)
251 * Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to
252 reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam
253 Morris. (Closes: #658009)
254 * Fix the legal notice in copyright-format to not refer to a nonexistent
256 * Embed the Debian Policy version and build date in the debconf
257 specification and the copyright-format document. We'll make
258 non-normative changes without updating other version numbers, and it's
259 good to know which version one is looking at.
260 * Fix some whitespace issues in the debconf specification articleinfo.
261 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
262 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
263 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
264 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
265 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
266 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
268 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
269 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
270 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
271 * Expand package long description to include all documents.
272 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
274 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
275 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
276 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
278 * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0, and in the process
279 add the license information for the documents other than Policy itself
280 and the FHS. Note the implication of the GPL source code requirement
281 for distributing generated versions of the Policy documents.
283 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:02:12 -0800
285 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
288 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
289 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
290 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
291 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
292 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
293 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
294 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
295 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
296 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
297 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
298 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
299 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
300 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
301 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
303 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
304 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
305 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
306 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
307 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
309 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
310 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
311 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
312 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
313 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
314 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
316 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
317 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
318 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
319 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
321 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
322 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
323 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
324 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
325 Closes: #620870, #532120
326 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
327 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
328 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
329 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
330 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
332 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
333 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
334 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
335 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
336 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
338 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
339 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
340 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
341 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
342 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
344 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
345 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
346 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
347 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
348 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
349 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
350 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
351 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
352 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
353 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
354 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
355 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
356 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
357 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
358 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
359 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
361 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
363 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
364 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
365 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
366 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
367 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
368 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
369 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
370 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
371 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
372 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
375 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
377 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
378 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
379 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
380 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
381 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
382 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
383 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
385 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
386 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
388 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
389 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
390 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
391 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
392 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
394 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
396 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
397 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
398 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
400 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
401 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
402 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
403 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
405 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
406 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
407 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
409 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
410 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
411 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
412 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
413 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
414 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
416 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
417 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
418 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
419 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
421 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
422 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
423 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
424 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
425 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
427 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
428 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
429 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
430 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
431 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
433 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
434 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
435 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
436 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
438 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
439 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
440 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
441 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
444 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
446 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
448 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
449 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
450 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
451 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
452 Closes: #459868, #581011
453 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
454 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
455 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
456 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
458 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
459 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
460 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
461 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
463 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
464 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
465 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
466 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
468 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
469 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
470 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
471 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
473 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
474 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
475 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
476 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
477 Closes: #501930, #593909
478 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
479 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
480 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
481 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
483 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
484 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
485 machine. (Closes: #591857)
486 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
487 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
488 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
489 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
490 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
491 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
492 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
493 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
494 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
495 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
497 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
498 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
499 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
500 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
501 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
502 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
503 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
504 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
505 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
506 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
507 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
508 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
509 than the version in oldstable.
510 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
511 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
512 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
513 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
514 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
515 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
516 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
517 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
518 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
519 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
520 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
521 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
522 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
523 package. (Closes: #609160)
525 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
527 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
529 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
530 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
531 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
532 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
533 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
535 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
536 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
537 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
538 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
540 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
541 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
542 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
543 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
545 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
546 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
547 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
548 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
549 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
550 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
551 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
552 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
553 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
555 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
556 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
557 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
558 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
560 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
561 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
562 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
563 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
565 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
566 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
567 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
568 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
570 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
571 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
572 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
573 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
575 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
576 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
577 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
578 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
579 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
581 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
582 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
583 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
584 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
585 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
587 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
588 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
589 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
590 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
592 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
593 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
594 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
595 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
597 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
598 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
599 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
600 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
602 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
603 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
604 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
605 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
607 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
608 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
609 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
610 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
612 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
613 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
614 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
615 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
617 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
619 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
620 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
621 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
622 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
623 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
624 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
625 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
626 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
627 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
629 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
630 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
631 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
632 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
633 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
634 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
636 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
638 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
641 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
644 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
647 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
648 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
649 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
650 and distribution license' (three times).
651 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
652 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
653 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
654 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
655 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
657 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
659 Proposed by Santiago Vila
660 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
661 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
662 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
663 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
667 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
668 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
669 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
670 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
672 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
673 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
674 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
675 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
676 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
677 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
679 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
680 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
681 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
682 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
684 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
685 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
686 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
687 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
688 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
690 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
691 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
692 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
693 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
694 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
696 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
697 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
698 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
699 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
700 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
702 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
703 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
704 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
705 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
707 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
708 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
709 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
710 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
711 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
713 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
714 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
715 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
716 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
718 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
719 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
720 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
721 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
723 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
724 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
725 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
726 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
727 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
729 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
730 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
731 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
732 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
734 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
735 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
736 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
737 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
738 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
740 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
741 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
742 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
743 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
745 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
746 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
747 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
748 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
749 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
750 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
751 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
752 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
753 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
754 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
755 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
756 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
757 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
758 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
759 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
760 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
761 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
762 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
763 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
764 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
765 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
766 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
767 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
768 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
769 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
770 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
771 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
772 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
773 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
774 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
775 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
776 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
778 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
780 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
782 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
785 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
786 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
788 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
789 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
793 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
796 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
797 Wording: Steve Langasek.
798 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
799 Seconded: Julien Cristau
800 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
803 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
804 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
805 Seconded: Russ Allbery
806 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
809 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
810 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
811 Seconded: Russ Allbery
813 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
814 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
815 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
816 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
817 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
818 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
819 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
820 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
821 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
823 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
824 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
825 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
826 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
827 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
828 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
829 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
830 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
831 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
832 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
833 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
834 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
835 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
836 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
837 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
838 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
840 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
841 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
842 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
843 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
844 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
846 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
849 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
850 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
851 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
852 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
853 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
854 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
857 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
859 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
861 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
862 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
863 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
864 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
866 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
867 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
868 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
869 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
871 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
872 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
873 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
874 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
876 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
877 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
878 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
879 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
880 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
881 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
883 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
884 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
885 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
886 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
887 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
889 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
890 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
891 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
892 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
894 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
895 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
896 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
897 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
899 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
900 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
901 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
902 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
904 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
905 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
906 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
907 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
909 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
910 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
911 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
912 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
914 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
915 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
916 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
917 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
918 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
919 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
920 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
921 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
922 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
923 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
924 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
925 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
926 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
927 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
928 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
930 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
931 Source field descriptions.
932 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
933 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
934 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
935 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
936 description says otherwise.
938 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
940 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
943 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
944 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
945 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
946 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
947 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
948 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
950 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
951 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
952 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
953 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
955 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
956 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
957 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
958 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
960 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
961 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
962 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
963 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
965 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
966 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
967 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
968 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
972 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
973 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
974 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
975 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
976 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
978 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
979 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
980 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
981 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
983 * Add myself to Uploaders.
986 * Add myself to Uploaders.
987 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
989 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
990 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
991 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
993 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
995 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
997 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
998 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
999 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1000 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1002 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
1003 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1004 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
1005 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1007 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
1008 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1009 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1010 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1012 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
1013 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1014 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1015 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1017 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
1018 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1019 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1020 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1022 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
1023 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1024 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1025 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1027 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
1028 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1029 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
1030 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1032 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
1033 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1034 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1035 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
1037 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
1038 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
1039 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1040 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
1042 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
1043 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
1044 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1045 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
1047 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
1048 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1049 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1050 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
1051 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1053 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
1054 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
1055 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
1056 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
1057 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
1058 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
1059 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
1060 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
1061 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
1062 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
1063 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
1064 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
1065 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
1066 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
1067 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
1068 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
1069 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
1070 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
1071 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
1072 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
1073 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
1074 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
1075 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
1076 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
1077 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
1078 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
1079 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
1080 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
1081 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
1082 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
1084 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
1085 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
1086 links was completed long ago.
1087 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
1089 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
1091 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1093 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
1094 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
1096 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
1098 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1100 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
1101 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
1102 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
1103 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
1104 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
1105 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
1106 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
1107 Millan (Closes: #209008).
1108 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
1109 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
1111 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
1113 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
1115 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
1116 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
1117 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
1118 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
1119 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
1120 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
1121 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
1123 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
1124 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
1125 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
1126 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
1128 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
1129 Küster (Closes: #403391).
1130 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
1131 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
1132 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
1133 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
1134 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
1135 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1136 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1137 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
1138 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1139 Closes: #186700, #458910
1140 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
1141 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1142 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1144 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
1145 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
1146 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
1147 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
1148 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
1149 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
1150 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
1151 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
1153 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
1154 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
1156 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
1157 * Add an md5sums control file.
1158 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
1159 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
1160 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
1161 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
1162 currently part of policy.
1163 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
1164 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
1165 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
1168 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
1170 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1172 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
1173 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1174 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
1175 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
1176 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
1177 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
1178 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
1179 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
1180 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
1181 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
1182 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
1183 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
1184 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
1185 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
1186 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
1187 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
1189 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
1191 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
1192 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
1193 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
1195 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
1196 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
1197 list?" (Closes: #412634).
1198 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
1199 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
1200 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
1201 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
1202 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
1203 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
1204 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
1205 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
1206 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
1207 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
1208 debconf specification.
1209 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
1210 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
1212 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
1214 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
1217 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
1218 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
1219 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
1220 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
1222 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
1224 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
1225 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
1226 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
1227 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
1228 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1230 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
1231 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
1232 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
1233 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
1234 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
1235 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
1236 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
1237 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
1238 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
1239 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
1240 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
1241 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
1242 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
1243 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
1244 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
1245 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1247 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1249 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
1250 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
1251 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1252 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
1253 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
1254 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
1255 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
1256 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1258 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1260 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1262 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1263 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1264 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1265 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1266 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1267 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1268 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1270 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1271 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1272 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1273 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1274 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1275 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1276 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1277 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1278 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1279 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1281 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1282 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1283 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1284 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1285 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1286 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1288 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1290 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1293 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1294 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1295 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1297 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1298 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1300 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1302 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1305 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1306 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1307 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1308 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1309 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1310 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1311 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1312 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1313 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1315 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1316 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1317 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1318 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1319 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1320 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1321 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1322 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1323 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1324 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1325 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1328 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1330 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1333 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1334 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1335 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1336 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1337 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1338 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1339 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1340 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1341 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1342 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1343 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1344 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1345 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1346 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1347 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1348 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1349 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1350 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1351 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1352 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1353 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1354 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1355 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1356 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1357 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1358 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1359 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1361 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1362 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1363 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1364 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1365 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1366 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1367 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1368 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1369 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1370 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1371 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1372 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1373 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1374 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1375 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1376 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1378 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1379 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1381 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1382 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1383 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1384 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1385 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1386 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1387 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1388 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1389 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1390 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1391 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1393 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1395 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1399 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1400 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1401 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1402 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1403 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1404 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1405 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1406 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1407 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1408 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1409 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1410 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1412 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1413 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1414 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1415 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1416 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1417 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1418 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1419 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1420 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1421 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1422 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1423 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1424 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1425 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1426 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1427 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1428 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1429 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1430 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1433 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1435 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1438 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1439 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1440 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1442 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1443 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1444 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1445 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1447 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1449 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1453 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1454 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1455 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1456 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1457 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1458 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1459 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1460 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1461 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1463 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1464 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1465 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1467 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1468 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1469 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1470 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1471 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1472 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1473 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1475 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1476 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1477 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1478 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1480 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1481 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1482 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1483 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1484 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1485 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1486 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1487 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1489 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1490 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1491 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1492 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1493 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1494 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1495 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1496 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1497 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1498 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1499 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1500 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1501 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1502 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1503 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1504 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1505 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1507 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1509 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1513 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1514 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1515 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1516 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1517 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1518 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1519 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1520 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1522 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1523 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1524 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1525 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1526 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1527 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1528 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1529 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1530 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1531 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1532 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1533 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1534 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1535 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1536 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1537 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1538 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1540 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1541 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1542 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1545 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1546 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1547 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1549 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1550 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1551 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1552 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1553 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1554 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1556 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1557 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1559 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1560 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1561 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1562 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1563 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1564 Closes: #185943, #237049
1566 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1568 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1574 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1575 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1576 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1577 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1578 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1579 running. closes: Bug#187250
1580 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1581 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1582 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1583 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1584 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1585 user closes: Bug#176506
1587 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1589 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1593 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1594 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1595 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1596 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1597 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1598 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1599 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1600 deb-building toolchain.
1601 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1602 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1603 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1604 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1605 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1606 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1607 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1608 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1609 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1610 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1611 sections about changelog files.
1613 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1614 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1615 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1616 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1617 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1618 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1620 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1621 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1622 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1623 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1624 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1625 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1626 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1627 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1628 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1629 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1630 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1631 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1632 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1633 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1634 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1635 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1636 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1637 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1638 for the restructuring
1640 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1642 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1645 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1647 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1648 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1649 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1650 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1651 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1652 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1654 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1655 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1656 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1657 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1658 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1659 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1660 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1662 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1663 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1664 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1665 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1667 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1669 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1673 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1674 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1675 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1676 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1677 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1679 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1680 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1681 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1682 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1684 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1685 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1686 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1687 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1688 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1689 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1690 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1691 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1692 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1693 offtopic stuff, too.
1694 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1695 script should start it, closes: #60979
1696 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1697 "should", closes: #170019
1698 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1699 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1700 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1701 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1702 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1703 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1704 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1705 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1708 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1710 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1714 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1715 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1716 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1717 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1718 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1719 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1720 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1721 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1723 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1724 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1725 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1726 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1727 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1728 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1729 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1730 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1731 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1733 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1734 file, closes: Bug#65764
1736 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1738 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1741 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1742 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1743 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1744 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1745 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1746 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1747 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1748 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1749 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1750 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1751 details. closes: Bug#133030
1752 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1753 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1754 parts of Bug#161455.
1756 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1758 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1761 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1762 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1763 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1764 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1765 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1766 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1767 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1768 not. closes: Bug#139820
1769 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1770 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1771 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1772 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1773 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1774 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1775 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1776 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1777 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1778 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1780 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1782 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1783 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1784 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1785 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1786 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1787 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1788 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1789 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1790 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1791 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1792 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1793 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1794 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1795 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1796 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1797 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1798 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1799 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1800 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1801 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1803 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1804 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1805 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1806 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1807 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1808 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1809 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1811 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1812 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1813 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1814 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1815 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1816 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1817 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1818 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1819 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1821 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1823 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1826 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1827 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1828 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1829 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1830 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1831 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1832 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1833 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1834 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1835 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1836 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1837 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1838 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1839 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1840 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1841 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1842 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1843 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1844 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1845 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1846 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1847 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1849 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1851 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1853 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1854 medium, high, emergency.
1855 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1856 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1857 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1858 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1859 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1862 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1863 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1864 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1866 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1867 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1868 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1869 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1870 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1871 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1872 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1875 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1877 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1880 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1881 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1882 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1884 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1885 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1886 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1887 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1888 debian/rules to do this
1889 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1890 patches are incorporated upstream
1891 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1892 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1893 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1894 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1895 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1896 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1898 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1899 system closes: Bug#91249
1900 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1901 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1902 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1903 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1904 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1905 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1906 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1907 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1908 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1909 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1910 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1911 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1912 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1914 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1916 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1919 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1920 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1921 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1923 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1924 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1925 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1927 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1930 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1932 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1935 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1936 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1937 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1938 package for the time being
1939 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1940 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1941 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1942 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1943 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1944 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1945 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1946 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1947 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1948 Build-Depends arch syntax
1949 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1951 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1952 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1954 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1955 from policy maintenance duties.
1956 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1957 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1959 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1961 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1965 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1967 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1970 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1971 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1972 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1973 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1974 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1975 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1976 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1977 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1978 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1979 minor version number for this
1980 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1981 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1982 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1983 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1984 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1985 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1986 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1987 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1988 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1990 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1992 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1994 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1995 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1996 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1997 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1998 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
2000 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
2002 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
2003 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
2004 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
2005 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
2006 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
2007 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
2008 xutils closes: Bug#82966
2009 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
2010 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
2011 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
2012 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
2013 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
2014 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
2015 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
2016 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
2017 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
2020 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
2022 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
2025 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
2027 * Document the Enhances relationship
2028 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
2029 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
2030 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
2031 policy. closes: Bug#53496
2032 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
2033 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
2035 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
2037 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
2038 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
2039 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
2040 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
2042 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
2043 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
2044 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
2045 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
2046 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
2048 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
2050 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
2053 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
2054 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
2056 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
2057 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
2058 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
2059 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
2060 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
2061 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
2062 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
2063 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
2064 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
2066 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
2068 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
2070 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
2073 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
2074 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
2075 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
2076 policy. closes: Bug#64437
2077 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
2078 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
2079 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
2080 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
2081 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
2082 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
2083 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
2084 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
2085 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
2086 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
2087 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
2088 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
2089 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
2090 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
2091 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
2092 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
2093 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
2095 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
2096 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
2098 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
2100 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
2103 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
2104 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
2105 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
2106 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
2107 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
2108 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
2109 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
2110 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
2111 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
2112 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
2113 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
2114 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
2115 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
2116 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
2117 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
2118 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
2119 alternative closes: Bug#53755
2120 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
2121 list closes: Bug#53756
2122 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
2123 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
2124 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
2125 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
2126 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
2127 policy closes: Bug#53760
2128 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
2129 policy closes: Bug#53761
2130 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
2131 that use X closes: Bug#53762
2132 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
2133 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
2134 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
2135 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
2136 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
2137 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
2138 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
2139 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
2140 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
2142 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
2143 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
2144 to install with older fileutils.
2145 * Installed FHS version 2.1
2146 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
2147 * Added FHS details to copyright file
2148 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
2150 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
2151 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
2153 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
2155 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
2158 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
2160 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
2162 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
2165 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
2167 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
2170 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
2173 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
2175 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
2177 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
2179 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
2182 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
2184 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
2186 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
2189 #45561, #42447, #48570)
2190 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
2191 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
2192 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
2193 directoried (closes: #41547)
2194 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
2195 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
2196 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
2197 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
2198 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
2199 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
2200 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
2201 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
2202 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
2203 package criteria (closes: #45318)
2204 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
2206 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
2207 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
2208 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
2209 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
2210 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
2211 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
2212 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
2214 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
2215 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
2216 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
2217 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
2219 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
2221 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
2223 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
2224 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
2226 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
2228 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
2231 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
2233 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
2235 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2237 * A few typos and omissions corrected
2238 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
2240 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
2241 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
2242 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
2243 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
2244 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
2245 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
2246 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
2247 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
2248 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
2249 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
2250 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
2251 this closes: Bug#38612
2252 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
2253 before. closes: Bug#40864
2255 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2257 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2259 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2260 officially uploaded.
2261 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2263 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2264 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2265 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2267 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2268 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2269 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2270 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2271 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2272 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2274 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2275 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2276 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2278 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2280 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2281 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2282 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2283 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2284 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2286 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2288 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2291 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2292 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2293 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2294 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2295 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2296 there). closes: Bug#34233
2297 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2298 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2299 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2300 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2301 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2303 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2305 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2308 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2309 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2310 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2313 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2314 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2315 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2316 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2317 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2320 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2321 number. closes: BUG#25911
2323 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2324 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2325 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2326 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2327 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2328 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2330 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2331 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2332 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2335 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2336 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2337 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2339 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2340 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2341 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2342 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2344 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2345 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2346 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2348 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2350 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2351 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2352 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2353 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2354 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2355 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2356 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2357 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2360 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2362 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2363 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2366 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2368 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2372 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2374 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2376 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2377 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2378 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2379 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2380 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2381 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2382 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2383 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2385 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2386 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2388 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2390 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2392 * non-maintainer release
2393 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2394 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2396 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2397 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2398 * no content changes
2399 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2401 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2403 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2407 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2409 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2411 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2413 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2414 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2415 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2417 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2418 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2420 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2421 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2422 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2423 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2425 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2426 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2427 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2428 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2429 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2430 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2431 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2433 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2434 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2435 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2438 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2439 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2440 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2442 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2443 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2444 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2446 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2447 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2449 * New version numbering scheme:
2451 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2452 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2453 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2456 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2457 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2458 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2459 differ between the manuals.
2461 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2462 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2463 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2464 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2466 * Packaging changes:
2468 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2469 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2471 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2473 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2475 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2477 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2479 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2480 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2481 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2483 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2484 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2487 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2488 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2489 file extension as the referenced file
2491 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2492 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2494 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2495 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2496 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2497 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2500 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2501 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2502 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2504 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2505 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2506 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2507 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2510 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2511 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2514 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2515 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2516 reasonable default configuration
2518 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2519 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2520 by all news servers and clients
2522 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2523 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2524 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2525 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2526 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2528 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2529 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2532 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2534 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2535 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2537 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2540 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2541 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2543 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2544 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2546 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2548 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2550 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2552 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2553 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2554 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2555 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2557 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2559 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2560 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2561 * Don't use debstd anymore
2563 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2565 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2568 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2569 contrib/non-free policy
2570 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2571 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2572 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2573 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2574 - new section about `Daemons'
2575 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2576 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2577 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2578 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2579 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2580 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2581 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2582 * SGML source code included in package
2583 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2585 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2587 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2589 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2590 - completely reworked structure
2591 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2592 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2593 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2594 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2595 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2596 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2597 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2598 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2599 - mention "orphaned packages"
2600 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2601 distributions' policy
2602 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2603 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2604 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2605 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2606 - added section about arch spec strings
2607 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2608 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2609 - added section about "menus"
2610 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2611 the new documentation policy soon
2612 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2613 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2615 - added section about editors and pagers
2616 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2617 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2618 - added section about device files
2619 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2620 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2621 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2623 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2624 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2625 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2626 - Added new section about obsolete names
2627 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2628 * Fixed package's description
2630 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2632 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2634 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2636 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2638 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2640 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2641 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2642 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2643 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2645 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2647 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2649 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2650 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2651 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2653 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2654 and upload it "byhand" too.
2656 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2658 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2661 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2662 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2663 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2664 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2665 functionality must not have the same name.
2666 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2667 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2668 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2669 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2670 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2671 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2672 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2674 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2675 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2676 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2677 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2678 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2679 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2680 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2681 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2684 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2686 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2688 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2690 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2691 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2692 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2693 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2694 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2697 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2699 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2701 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2703 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2704 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2705 description of deb file format.
2706 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2707 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2709 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2711 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2712 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2714 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2716 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2718 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2719 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2720 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2721 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2722 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2723 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2724 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2725 packages in section on Procedure
2726 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2727 a package maintainer
2728 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2729 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2730 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2732 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2733 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2734 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2735 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2736 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2737 on various shlib files
2738 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2739 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2740 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2742 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2744 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2746 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2747 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2748 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2750 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2751 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2752 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2753 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2754 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2756 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2758 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2760 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2762 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2764 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2765 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2766 compatibility go in contrib.
2768 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2769 instructions in policy manual.
2770 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2773 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2775 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2777 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2778 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2779 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2780 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2782 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2783 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2786 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2788 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2790 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2791 * More detail about changelog format names.
2793 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2794 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2798 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2800 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2802 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2804 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2806 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2808 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2810 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2812 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2813 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2814 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2816 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2818 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2820 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2822 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2824 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2828 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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