1 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source
4 package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)
5 * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.
6 Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)
7 and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and
9 * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking
10 whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending
11 dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)
12 * Remove the ambiguous word "installed" when requiring that the location
13 of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)
14 * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not
15 contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)
16 * Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided
17 (currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist
18 or perform the equivalent actions. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some
19 of the wording. (Closes: #601839)
20 * Clearly state that "yes" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed
21 and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)
22 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
23 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
24 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
25 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
26 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
27 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
29 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
30 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
31 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
32 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
34 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
35 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
36 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
39 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:07:42 -0800
41 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
44 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
45 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
46 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
47 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
48 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
49 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
50 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
51 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
52 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
53 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
54 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
55 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
56 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
57 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
59 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
60 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
61 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
62 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
63 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
65 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
66 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
67 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
68 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
69 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
70 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
72 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
73 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
74 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
75 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
77 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
78 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
79 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
80 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
81 Closes: #620870, #532120
82 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
83 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
84 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
85 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
86 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
88 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
89 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
90 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
91 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
92 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
94 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
95 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
96 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
97 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
98 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
100 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
101 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
102 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
103 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
104 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
105 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
106 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
107 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
108 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
109 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
110 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
111 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
112 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
113 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
114 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
115 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
117 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
119 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
120 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
121 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
122 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
123 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
124 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
125 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
126 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
127 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
128 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
131 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
133 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
134 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
135 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
136 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
137 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
138 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
139 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
141 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
142 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
144 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
145 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
146 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
147 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
148 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
150 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
152 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
153 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
154 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
156 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
157 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
158 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
159 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
161 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
162 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
163 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
165 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
166 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
167 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
168 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
169 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
170 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
172 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
173 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
174 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
175 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
177 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
178 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
179 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
180 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
181 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
183 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
184 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
185 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
186 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
187 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
189 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
190 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
191 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
192 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
194 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
195 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
196 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
197 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
200 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
202 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
204 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
205 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
206 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
207 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
208 Closes: #459868, #581011
209 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
210 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
211 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
212 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
214 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
215 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
216 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
217 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
219 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
220 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
221 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
222 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
224 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
225 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
226 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
227 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
229 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
230 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
231 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
232 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
233 Closes: #501930, #593909
234 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
235 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
236 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
237 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
239 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
240 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
241 machine. (Closes: #591857)
242 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
243 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
244 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
245 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
246 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
247 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
248 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
249 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
250 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
251 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
253 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
254 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
255 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
256 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
257 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
258 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
259 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
260 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
261 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
262 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
263 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
264 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
265 than the version in oldstable.
266 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
267 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
268 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
269 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
270 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
271 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
272 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
273 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
274 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
275 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
276 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
277 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
278 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
279 package. (Closes: #609160)
281 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
283 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
285 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
286 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
287 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
288 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
289 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
291 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
292 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
293 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
294 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
296 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
297 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
298 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
299 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
301 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
302 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
303 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
304 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
305 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
306 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
307 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
308 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
309 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
311 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
312 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
313 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
314 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
316 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
317 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
318 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
319 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
321 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
322 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
323 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
324 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
326 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
327 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
328 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
329 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
331 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
332 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
333 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
334 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
335 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
337 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
338 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
339 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
340 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
341 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
343 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
344 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
345 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
346 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
348 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
349 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
350 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
351 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
353 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
354 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
355 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
356 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
358 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
359 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
360 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
361 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
363 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
364 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
365 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
366 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
368 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
369 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
370 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
371 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
373 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
375 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
376 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
377 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
378 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
379 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
380 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
381 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
382 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
383 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
385 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
386 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
387 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
388 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
389 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
390 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
392 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
394 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
397 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
400 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
403 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
404 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
405 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
406 and distribution license' (three times).
407 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
408 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
409 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
410 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
411 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
413 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
415 Proposed by Santiago Vila
416 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
417 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
418 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
419 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
423 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
424 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
425 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
426 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
428 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
429 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
430 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
431 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
432 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
433 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
435 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
436 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
437 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
438 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
440 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
441 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
442 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
443 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
444 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
446 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
447 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
448 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
449 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
450 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
452 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
453 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
454 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
455 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
456 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
458 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
459 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
460 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
461 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
463 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
464 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
465 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
466 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
467 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
469 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
470 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
471 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
472 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
474 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
475 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
476 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
477 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
479 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
480 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
481 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
482 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
483 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
485 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
486 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
487 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
488 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
490 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
491 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
492 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
493 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
494 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
496 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
497 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
498 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
499 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
501 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
502 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
503 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
504 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
505 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
506 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
507 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
508 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
509 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
510 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
511 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
512 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
513 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
514 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
515 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
516 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
517 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
518 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
519 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
520 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
521 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
522 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
523 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
524 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
525 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
526 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
527 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
528 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
529 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
530 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
531 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
532 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
534 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
536 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
538 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
541 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
542 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
544 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
545 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
549 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
552 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
553 Wording: Steve Langasek.
554 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
555 Seconded: Julien Cristau
556 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
559 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
560 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
561 Seconded: Russ Allbery
562 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
565 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
566 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
567 Seconded: Russ Allbery
569 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
570 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
571 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
572 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
573 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
574 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
575 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
576 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
577 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
579 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
580 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
581 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
582 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
583 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
584 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
585 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
586 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
587 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
588 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
589 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
590 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
591 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
592 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
593 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
594 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
596 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
597 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
598 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
599 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
600 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
602 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
605 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
606 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
607 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
608 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
609 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
610 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
613 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
615 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
617 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
618 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
619 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
620 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
622 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
623 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
624 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
625 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
627 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
628 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
629 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
630 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
632 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
633 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
634 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
635 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
636 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
637 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
639 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
640 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
641 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
642 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
643 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
645 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
646 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
647 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
648 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
650 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
651 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
652 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
653 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
655 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
656 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
657 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
658 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
660 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
661 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
662 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
663 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
665 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
666 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
667 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
668 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
670 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
671 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
672 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
673 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
674 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
675 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
676 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
677 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
678 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
679 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
680 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
681 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
682 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
683 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
684 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
686 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
687 Source field descriptions.
688 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
689 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
690 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
691 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
692 description says otherwise.
694 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
696 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
699 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
700 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
701 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
702 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
703 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
704 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
706 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
707 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
708 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
709 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
711 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
712 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
713 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
714 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
716 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
717 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
718 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
719 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
721 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
722 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
723 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
724 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
728 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
729 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
730 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
731 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
732 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
734 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
735 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
736 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
737 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
739 * Add myself to Uploaders.
742 * Add myself to Uploaders.
743 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
745 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
746 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
747 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
749 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
751 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
753 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
754 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
755 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
756 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
758 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
759 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
760 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
761 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
763 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
764 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
765 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
766 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
768 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
769 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
770 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
771 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
773 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
774 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
775 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
776 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
778 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
779 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
780 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
781 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
783 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
784 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
785 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
786 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
788 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
789 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
790 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
791 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
793 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
794 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
795 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
796 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
798 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
799 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
800 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
801 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
803 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
804 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
805 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
806 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
807 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
809 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
810 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
811 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
812 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
813 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
814 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
815 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
816 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
817 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
818 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
819 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
820 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
821 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
822 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
823 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
824 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
825 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
826 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
827 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
828 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
829 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
830 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
831 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
832 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
833 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
834 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
835 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
836 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
837 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
838 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
840 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
841 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
842 links was completed long ago.
843 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
845 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
847 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
849 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
850 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
852 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
854 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
856 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
857 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
858 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
859 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
860 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
861 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
862 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
863 Millan (Closes: #209008).
864 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
865 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
867 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
869 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
871 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
872 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
873 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
874 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
875 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
876 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
877 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
879 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
880 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
881 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
882 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
884 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
885 Küster (Closes: #403391).
886 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
887 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
888 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
889 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
890 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
891 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
892 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
893 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
894 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
895 Closes: #186700, #458910
896 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
897 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
898 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
900 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
901 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
902 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
903 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
904 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
905 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
906 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
907 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
909 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
910 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
912 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
913 * Add an md5sums control file.
914 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
915 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
916 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
917 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
918 currently part of policy.
919 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
920 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
921 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
924 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
926 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
928 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
929 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
930 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
931 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
932 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
933 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
934 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
935 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
936 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
937 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
938 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
939 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
940 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
941 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
942 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
943 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
945 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
947 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
948 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
949 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
951 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
952 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
953 list?" (Closes: #412634).
954 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
955 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
956 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
957 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
958 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
959 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
960 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
961 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
962 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
963 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
964 debconf specification.
965 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
966 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
968 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
970 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
972 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
973 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
974 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
975 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
976 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
978 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
980 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
981 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
982 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
983 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
984 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
986 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
987 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
988 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
989 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
990 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
991 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
992 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
993 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
994 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
995 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
996 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
997 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
998 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
999 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
1000 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
1001 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1003 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1005 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
1006 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
1007 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1008 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
1009 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
1010 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
1011 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
1012 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1014 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1016 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1019 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1020 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1021 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1022 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1023 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1024 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1026 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1027 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1028 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1029 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1030 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1031 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1032 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1033 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1034 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1035 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1037 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1038 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1039 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1040 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1041 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1042 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1044 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1046 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1049 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1050 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1051 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1053 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1054 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1056 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1058 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1060 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1061 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1062 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1063 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1064 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1065 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1066 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1067 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1068 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1069 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1071 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1072 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1073 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1074 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1075 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1076 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1077 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1078 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1079 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1080 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1081 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1084 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1086 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1089 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1090 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1091 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1092 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1093 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1094 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1095 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1096 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1097 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1098 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1099 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1100 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1101 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1102 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1103 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1104 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1105 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1106 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1107 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1108 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1109 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1110 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1111 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1112 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1113 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1114 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1115 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1117 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1118 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1119 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1120 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1121 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1122 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1123 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1124 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1125 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1126 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1127 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1128 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1129 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1130 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1131 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1132 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1134 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1135 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1137 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1138 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1139 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1140 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1141 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1142 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1143 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1144 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1145 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1146 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1147 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1149 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1151 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1155 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1156 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1157 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1158 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1159 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1160 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1161 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1162 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1163 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1164 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1165 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1166 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1168 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1169 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1170 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1171 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1172 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1173 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1174 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1175 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1176 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1177 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1178 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1179 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1180 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1181 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1182 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1183 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1184 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1185 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1186 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1189 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1191 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1194 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1195 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1196 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1198 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1199 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1200 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1201 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1203 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1205 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1209 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1210 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1211 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1212 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1213 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1214 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1215 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1216 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1217 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1219 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1220 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1221 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1223 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1224 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1225 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1226 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1227 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1228 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1229 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1231 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1232 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1233 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1234 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1236 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1237 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1238 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1239 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1240 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1241 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1242 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1243 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1245 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1246 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1247 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1248 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1249 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1250 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1251 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1252 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1253 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1254 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1255 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1256 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1257 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1258 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1259 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1260 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1261 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1263 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1265 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1269 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1270 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1271 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1272 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1273 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1274 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1275 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1276 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1278 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1279 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1280 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1281 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1282 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1283 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1284 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1285 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1286 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1287 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1288 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1289 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1290 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1291 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1292 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1293 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1294 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1296 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1297 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1298 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1301 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1302 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1303 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1305 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1306 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1307 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1308 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1309 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1310 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1312 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1313 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1315 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1316 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1317 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1318 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1319 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1320 Closes: #185943, #237049
1322 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1324 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1330 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1331 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1332 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1333 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1334 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1335 running. closes: Bug#187250
1336 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1337 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1338 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1339 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1340 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1341 user closes: Bug#176506
1343 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1345 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1349 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1350 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1351 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1352 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1353 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1354 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1355 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1356 deb-building toolchain.
1357 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1358 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1359 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1360 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1361 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1362 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1363 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1364 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1365 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1366 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1367 sections about changelog files.
1369 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1370 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1371 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1372 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1373 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1374 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1376 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1377 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1378 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1379 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1380 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1381 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1382 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1383 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1384 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1385 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1386 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1387 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1388 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1389 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1390 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1391 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1392 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1393 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1394 for the restructuring
1396 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1398 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1403 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1404 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1405 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1406 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1407 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1408 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1410 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1411 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1412 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1413 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1414 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1415 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1416 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1418 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1419 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1420 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1421 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1423 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1425 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1429 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1430 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1431 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1432 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1433 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1435 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1436 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1437 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1438 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1440 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1441 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1442 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1443 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1444 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1445 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1446 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1447 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1448 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1449 offtopic stuff, too.
1450 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1451 script should start it, closes: #60979
1452 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1453 "should", closes: #170019
1454 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1455 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1456 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1457 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1458 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1459 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1460 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1461 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1464 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1466 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1470 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1471 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1472 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1473 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1474 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1475 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1476 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1477 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1479 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1480 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1481 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1482 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1483 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1484 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1485 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1486 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1487 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1489 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1490 file, closes: Bug#65764
1492 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1494 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1497 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1498 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1499 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1500 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1501 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1502 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1503 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1504 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1505 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1506 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1507 details. closes: Bug#133030
1508 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1509 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1510 parts of Bug#161455.
1512 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1514 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1517 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1518 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1519 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1520 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1521 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1522 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1523 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1524 not. closes: Bug#139820
1525 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1526 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1527 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1528 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1529 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1530 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1531 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1532 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1533 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1534 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1536 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1538 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1539 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1540 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1541 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1542 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1543 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1544 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1545 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1546 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1547 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1548 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1549 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1550 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1551 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1552 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1553 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1554 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1555 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1556 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1557 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1559 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1560 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1561 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1562 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1563 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1564 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1565 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1567 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1568 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1569 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1570 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1571 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1572 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1573 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1574 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1575 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1577 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1579 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1582 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1583 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1584 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1585 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1586 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1587 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1588 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1589 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1590 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1591 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1592 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1593 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1594 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1595 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1596 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1597 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1598 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1599 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1600 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1601 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1602 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1603 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1605 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1607 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1609 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1610 medium, high, emergency.
1611 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1612 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1613 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1614 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1615 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1618 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1619 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1620 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1622 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1623 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1624 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1625 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1626 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1627 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1628 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1631 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1633 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1636 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1637 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1638 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1640 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1641 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1642 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1643 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1644 debian/rules to do this
1645 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1646 patches are incorporated upstream
1647 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1648 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1649 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1650 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1651 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1652 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1654 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1655 system closes: Bug#91249
1656 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1657 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1658 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1659 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1660 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1661 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1662 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1663 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1664 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1665 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1666 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1667 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1668 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1670 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1672 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1675 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1676 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1677 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1679 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1680 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1681 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1683 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1686 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1688 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1691 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1692 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1693 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1694 package for the time being
1695 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1696 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1697 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1698 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1699 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1700 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1701 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1702 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1703 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1704 Build-Depends arch syntax
1705 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1707 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1708 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1710 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1711 from policy maintenance duties.
1712 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1713 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1715 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1717 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1721 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1723 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1726 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1727 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1728 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1729 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1730 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1731 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1732 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1733 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1734 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1735 minor version number for this
1736 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1737 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1738 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1739 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1740 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1741 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1742 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1743 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1744 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1746 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1748 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1751 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1752 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1753 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1754 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1756 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1758 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1759 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1760 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1761 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1762 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1763 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1764 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1765 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1766 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1767 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1768 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1769 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1770 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1771 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1772 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1773 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1776 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1778 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1781 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1783 * Document the Enhances relationship
1784 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1785 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1786 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1787 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1788 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1789 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1791 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1793 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1794 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1795 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1796 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1798 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1799 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1800 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1801 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1802 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1804 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1806 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1809 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1810 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1812 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1813 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1814 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1815 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1816 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1817 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1818 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1819 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1820 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1822 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1824 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1826 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1828 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1829 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1830 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1831 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1832 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1833 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1834 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1835 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1836 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1837 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1838 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1839 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1840 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1841 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1842 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1843 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1844 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1845 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1846 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1847 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1848 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1849 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1851 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1852 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1854 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1856 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1859 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1860 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1861 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1862 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1863 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1864 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1865 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1866 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1867 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1868 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1869 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1870 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1871 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1872 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1873 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1874 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1875 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1876 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1877 list closes: Bug#53756
1878 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1879 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1880 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1881 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1882 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1883 policy closes: Bug#53760
1884 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1885 policy closes: Bug#53761
1886 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1887 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1888 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1889 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1890 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1891 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1892 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1893 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1894 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1895 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1896 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1898 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1899 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1900 to install with older fileutils.
1901 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1902 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1903 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1904 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1906 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1907 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1909 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1911 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1913 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1914 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1916 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1918 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1921 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1923 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1926 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1929 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1931 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1933 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1935 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1938 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1940 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1942 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1945 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1946 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1947 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1948 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1949 directoried (closes: #41547)
1950 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1951 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1952 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1953 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1954 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1955 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1956 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1957 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1958 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1959 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1960 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1962 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1963 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1964 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1965 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1966 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1967 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1968 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1970 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1971 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1972 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1973 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1975 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1977 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1979 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1980 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1982 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1984 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1987 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1989 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1991 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1994 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1996 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1997 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1998 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1999 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
2000 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
2001 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
2002 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
2003 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
2004 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
2005 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
2006 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
2007 this closes: Bug#38612
2008 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
2009 before. closes: Bug#40864
2011 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2013 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2015 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2016 officially uploaded.
2017 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2019 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2020 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2021 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2023 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2024 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2025 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2026 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2027 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2028 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2030 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2031 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2032 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2034 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2036 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2037 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2038 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2039 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2040 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2042 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2044 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2046 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2047 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2048 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2049 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2050 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2051 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2052 there). closes: Bug#34233
2053 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2054 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2055 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2056 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2057 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2059 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2061 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2064 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2065 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2066 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2069 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2070 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2071 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2072 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2073 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2076 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2077 number. closes: BUG#25911
2079 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2080 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2081 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2082 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2083 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2084 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2086 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2087 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2088 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2091 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2092 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2093 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2095 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2096 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2097 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2098 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2100 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2101 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2102 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2104 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2106 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2107 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2108 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2109 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2110 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2111 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2112 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2113 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2116 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2118 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2119 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2122 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2124 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2128 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2130 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2133 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2134 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2135 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2136 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2137 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2138 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2139 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2141 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2142 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2144 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2146 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2148 * non-maintainer release
2149 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2150 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2152 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2153 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2154 * no content changes
2155 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2157 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2159 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2163 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2165 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2167 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2169 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2170 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2171 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2173 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2174 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2176 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2177 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2178 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2179 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2181 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2182 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2183 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2184 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2185 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2186 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2187 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2189 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2190 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2191 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2194 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2195 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2196 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2198 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2199 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2200 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2202 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2203 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2205 * New version numbering scheme:
2207 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2208 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2209 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2212 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2213 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2214 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2215 differ between the manuals.
2217 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2218 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2219 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2220 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2222 * Packaging changes:
2224 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2225 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2227 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2229 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2231 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2233 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2235 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2236 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2237 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2239 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2240 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2243 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2244 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2245 file extension as the referenced file
2247 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2248 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2250 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2251 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2252 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2253 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2256 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2257 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2258 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2260 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2261 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2262 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2263 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2266 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2267 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2270 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2271 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2272 reasonable default configuration
2274 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2275 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2276 by all news servers and clients
2278 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2279 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2280 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2281 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2282 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2284 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2285 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2288 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2290 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2291 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2293 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2296 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2297 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2299 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2300 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2302 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2304 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2306 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2309 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2310 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2311 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2313 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2315 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2316 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2317 * Don't use debstd anymore
2319 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2321 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2323 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2324 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2325 contrib/non-free policy
2326 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2327 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2328 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2329 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2330 - new section about `Daemons'
2331 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2332 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2333 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2334 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2335 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2336 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2337 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2338 * SGML source code included in package
2339 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2341 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2343 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2346 - completely reworked structure
2347 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2348 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2349 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2350 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2351 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2352 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2353 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2354 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2355 - mention "orphaned packages"
2356 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2357 distributions' policy
2358 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2359 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2360 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2361 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2362 - added section about arch spec strings
2363 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2364 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2365 - added section about "menus"
2366 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2367 the new documentation policy soon
2368 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2369 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2371 - added section about editors and pagers
2372 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2373 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2374 - added section about device files
2375 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2376 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2377 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2379 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2380 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2381 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2382 - Added new section about obsolete names
2383 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2384 * Fixed package's description
2386 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2388 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2390 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2392 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2394 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2396 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2397 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2398 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2399 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2401 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2403 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2405 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2406 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2407 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2409 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2410 and upload it "byhand" too.
2412 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2414 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2418 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2419 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2420 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2421 functionality must not have the same name.
2422 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2423 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2424 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2425 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2426 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2427 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2428 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2430 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2431 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2432 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2433 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2434 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2435 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2436 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2437 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2440 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2442 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2444 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2446 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2447 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2448 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2449 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2450 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2453 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2455 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2457 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2459 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2460 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2461 description of deb file format.
2462 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2463 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2465 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2467 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2468 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2470 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2472 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2474 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2475 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2476 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2477 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2478 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2479 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2480 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2481 packages in section on Procedure
2482 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2483 a package maintainer
2484 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2485 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2486 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2488 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2489 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2490 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2491 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2492 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2493 on various shlib files
2494 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2495 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2496 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2498 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2500 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2502 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2503 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2504 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2506 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2507 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2508 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2509 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2510 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2512 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2514 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2516 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2518 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2520 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2521 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2522 compatibility go in contrib.
2524 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2525 instructions in policy manual.
2526 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2529 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2531 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2533 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2534 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2535 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2536 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2538 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2539 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2542 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2544 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2546 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2547 * More detail about changelog format names.
2549 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2550 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2554 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2556 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2558 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2560 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2562 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2564 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2566 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2568 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2569 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2570 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2572 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2574 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2576 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2578 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2580 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2584 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100