1 debian-policy (3.9.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
4 * upgrading-checklist.sgml: remove spurious 'details in' leftover from
5 the HTML transition. Closes: #740100. Thanks Jakub Wilk.
7 - Build-Depends emacs24-nox|emacs24 instead of emacs23. Closes: #753999
8 Thanks Gabriele Giacone.
9 * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
10 * Policy: [11.5.1] Web servers: Fix use of metasyntactic variables and
11 applications Closes: #737730. Thanks Olivier Berger.
12 * Policy: [5.6.21] Files: Fix typo "by" -> be. Closes: #753353.
13 Thanks Benedikt Wildenhain.
14 * Policy: Remove reference to DEHS (dead service)
15 Wording: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
16 Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
17 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
19 * Policy: Relax /usr/share FHS requirement for directories with mixed content.
20 Wording: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
21 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
22 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
23 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
24 Seconded: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>
26 * Perl Policy: @INC has /usr/lib/perl/5.18, not /usr/lib/perl/5.18.2
27 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
28 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
29 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
31 * Perl Policy: Explain %Config earlier
32 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
33 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
34 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
36 * Perl Policy: @INC changes for multiarch
37 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
38 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
39 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
41 * Perl Policy: Packages using Perl vendorarch directory need a perlapi-*
43 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
44 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
45 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
46 Seconded: Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>
48 * Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch headers directories
49 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
50 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
51 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
53 * Policy: Discourage statically linked binaries
54 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
55 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
56 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
58 * virtual-package-names-list: Update java runtime list
59 Wording: Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>
60 Seconded: Tony Mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
61 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
63 * virtual-package-names-list: Add httpd-wsgi
64 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
65 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
66 Seconded: Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org>
69 * Policy: Drop FHS requirement that /usr/local/lib<qual> exist when /lib<qual>
70 or /usr/lib<qual> does.
71 Wording: Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>
72 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
73 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
74 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
77 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jun 2014 21:43:08 +0200
79 debian-policy (3.9.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
81 * Policy: Document the Package-List field.
82 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
83 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
84 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
86 * Policy: DM-Upload-Allowed is now obsolete
87 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
88 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
89 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
90 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
92 * Policy: Checksums-{Sha1,Sha256} are now mandatory
93 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
94 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
95 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
97 * Policy: Requirements for udebs are not well documented yet
98 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
99 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
100 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
101 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
102 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
104 * Policy: install-info is run by a dpkg trigger.
105 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
106 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
107 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
109 * Policy: Stop recommending to serve HTML documents from /usr/share/doc.
110 Wording: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>
111 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
112 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
114 * Policy: File names encoded in UTF-8. ASCII preferred and mandatory in PATH.
115 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
116 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
117 Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
119 * Policy: Document the Dgit field for Debian Source Control files.
120 Wording: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
121 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
122 Seconded: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
123 Seconded: Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox@debian.org>
125 * Policy: Remove the exception to the FHS for the /selinux directory.
126 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
127 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
128 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
130 * Policy: on upgrades, recommend removing obsolete unchanged conf. files.
131 Wording: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
132 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
133 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
135 * Policy: Control data fields must not start with a hyphen character.
136 Wording: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
137 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
138 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
140 * debconf_spec: Document the 'escape' capability.
141 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
142 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
143 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
145 * virtual-package-names-list: removed mp3-decoder and mp3-encoder.
146 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
147 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
148 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
150 * Clean outdated mentions of dpkg commands in appendix. Thanks, Guillem Jover
151 * Remove outdated mention of dselect documentation.
152 Closes: #700574. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
153 * Update dak reference from old katie name.
154 Closes: #700536. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
155 * Fix typo in 8.6.4. Thanks, Raúl Benencia. (Closes: #691352)
156 * Fix typo in 8.6.4.1. Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>.
157 * Added a warning in appendix G about diverting conffiles.
158 Closes: #703022. Thanks, Torsten Jerzembeck.
159 * List build-arch and build-indep with the other required targets in 4.9.
160 Closes: #704657. Thanks, Philipp Hahn.
161 * Replaced non-standard names of dpkg states by normalised ones.
163 * Clarify what is meant by "compressed" in section 10.5. (Closes: #676784)
164 * Packaging: use the VCS URLs proposed by Lintian.
165 * Packaging: normalised debian/control with the tool "config-model-edit".
166 * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
168 -- Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> Mon, 28 Oct 2013 09:40:48 +0900
170 debian-policy (3.9.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
172 * build-arch and build-indep are now mandatory targets in debian/rules,
173 implementing the Technical Committee ruling in #629385. Wording
174 review by Jonathan Nieder, Jakub Wilk, and Roger Leigh.
176 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding tasks.
177 Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #670429)
178 * Policy: Copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8
179 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
180 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
181 Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
182 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
184 * Policy: Prohibit deprecated < and > relations
185 Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
186 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
187 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
189 * Policy: Document the Built-Using field
190 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
191 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
192 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
194 * Policy: Document the Vcs-* fields
195 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
196 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
197 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
198 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
199 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
201 * Policy: Document restrictions on the use of /run for wheezy
202 Wording: Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
203 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
204 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
206 * Policy: Rewrite shared library dependency policy to document symbols
207 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
208 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
209 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
210 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
212 * Policy: Document generic and upstart-specific init system requirements
213 Wording: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
214 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
215 Seconded: Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
217 * Policy: Rely on triggers instead of calling update-mime
218 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
219 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
220 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
223 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:35:36 -0700
225 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
227 * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source
228 package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)
229 * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.
230 Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)
231 and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and
233 * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking
234 whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending
235 dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)
236 * Remove the ambiguous word "installed" when requiring that the location
237 of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)
238 * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not
239 contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)
240 * Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided
241 (currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist
242 or perform the equivalent actions. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some
243 of the wording. (Closes: #601839)
244 * Clearly state that "yes" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed
245 and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)
246 * Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to
247 reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam
248 Morris. (Closes: #658009)
249 * Fix the legal notice in copyright-format to not refer to a nonexistent
251 * Embed the Debian Policy version and build date in the debconf
252 specification and the copyright-format document. We'll make
253 non-normative changes without updating other version numbers, and it's
254 good to know which version one is looking at.
255 * Fix some whitespace issues in the debconf specification articleinfo.
256 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
257 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
258 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
259 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
260 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
261 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
263 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
264 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
265 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
266 * Expand package long description to include all documents.
267 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
269 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
270 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
271 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
273 * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0, and in the process
274 add the license information for the documents other than Policy itself
275 and the FHS. Note the implication of the GPL source code requirement
276 for distributing generated versions of the Policy documents.
278 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:02:12 -0800
280 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
283 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
284 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
285 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
286 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
287 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
288 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
289 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
290 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
291 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
292 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
293 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
294 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
295 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
296 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
298 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
299 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
300 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
301 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
302 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
304 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
305 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
306 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
307 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
308 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
309 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
311 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
312 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
313 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
314 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
316 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
317 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
318 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
319 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
320 Closes: #620870, #532120
321 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
322 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
323 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
324 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
325 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
327 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
328 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
329 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
330 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
331 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
333 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
334 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
335 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
336 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
337 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
339 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
340 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
341 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
342 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
343 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
344 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
345 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
346 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
347 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
348 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
349 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
350 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
351 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
352 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
353 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
354 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
356 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
358 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
359 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
360 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
361 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
362 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
363 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
364 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
365 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
366 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
367 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
370 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
372 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
373 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
374 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
375 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
376 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
377 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
378 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
380 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
381 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
383 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
384 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
385 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
386 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
387 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
389 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
391 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
392 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
393 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
395 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
396 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
397 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
398 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
400 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
401 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
402 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
404 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
405 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
406 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
407 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
408 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
409 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
411 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
412 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
413 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
414 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
416 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
417 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
418 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
419 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
420 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
422 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
423 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
424 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
425 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
426 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
428 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
429 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
430 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
431 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
433 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
434 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
435 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
436 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
439 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
441 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
443 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
444 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
445 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
446 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
447 Closes: #459868, #581011
448 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
449 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
450 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
451 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
453 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
454 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
455 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
456 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
458 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
459 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
460 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
461 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
463 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
464 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
465 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
466 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
468 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
469 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
470 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
471 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
472 Closes: #501930, #593909
473 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
474 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
475 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
476 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
478 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
479 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
480 machine. (Closes: #591857)
481 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
482 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
483 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
484 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
485 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
486 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
487 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
488 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
489 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
490 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
492 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
493 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
494 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
495 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
496 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
497 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
498 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
499 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
500 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
501 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
502 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
503 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
504 than the version in oldstable.
505 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
506 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
507 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
508 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
509 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
510 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
511 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
512 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
513 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
514 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
515 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
516 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
517 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
518 package. (Closes: #609160)
520 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
522 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
524 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
525 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
526 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
527 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
528 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
530 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
531 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
532 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
533 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
535 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
536 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
537 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
538 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
540 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
541 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
542 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
543 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
544 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
545 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
546 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
547 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
548 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
550 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
551 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
552 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
553 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
555 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
556 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
557 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
558 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
560 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
561 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
562 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
563 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
565 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
566 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
567 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
568 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
570 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
571 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
572 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
573 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
574 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
576 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
577 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
578 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
579 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
580 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
582 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
583 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
584 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
585 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
587 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
588 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
589 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
590 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
592 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
593 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
594 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
595 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
597 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
598 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
599 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
600 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
602 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
603 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
604 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
605 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
607 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
608 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
609 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
610 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
612 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
614 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
615 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
616 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
617 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
618 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
619 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
620 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
621 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
622 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
624 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
625 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
626 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
627 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
628 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
629 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
631 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
633 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
636 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
639 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
642 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
643 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
644 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
645 and distribution license' (three times).
646 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
647 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
648 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
649 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
650 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
652 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
654 Proposed by Santiago Vila
655 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
656 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
657 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
658 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
662 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
663 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
664 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
665 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
667 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
668 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
669 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
670 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
671 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
672 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
674 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
675 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
676 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
677 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
679 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
680 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
681 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
682 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
683 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
685 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
686 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
687 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
688 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
689 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
691 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
692 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
693 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
694 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
695 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
697 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
698 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
699 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
700 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
702 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
703 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
704 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
705 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
706 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
708 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
709 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
710 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
711 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
713 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
714 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
715 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
716 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
718 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
719 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
720 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
721 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
722 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
724 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
725 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
726 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
727 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
729 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
730 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
731 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
732 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
733 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
735 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
736 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
737 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
738 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
740 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
741 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
742 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
743 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
744 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
745 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
746 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
747 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
748 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
749 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
750 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
751 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
752 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
753 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
754 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
755 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
756 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
757 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
758 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
759 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
760 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
761 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
762 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
763 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
764 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
765 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
766 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
767 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
768 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
769 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
770 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
771 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
773 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
775 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
777 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
780 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
781 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
783 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
784 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
788 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
791 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
792 Wording: Steve Langasek.
793 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
794 Seconded: Julien Cristau
795 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
798 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
799 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
800 Seconded: Russ Allbery
801 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
804 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
805 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
806 Seconded: Russ Allbery
808 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
809 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
810 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
811 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
812 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
813 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
814 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
815 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
816 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
818 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
819 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
820 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
821 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
822 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
823 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
824 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
825 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
826 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
827 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
828 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
829 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
830 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
831 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
832 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
833 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
835 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
836 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
837 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
838 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
839 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
841 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
844 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
845 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
846 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
847 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
848 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
849 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
852 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
854 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
856 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
857 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
858 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
859 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
861 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
862 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
863 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
864 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
866 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
867 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
868 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
869 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
871 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
872 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
873 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
874 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
875 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
876 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
878 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
879 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
880 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
881 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
882 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
884 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
885 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
886 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
887 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
889 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
890 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
891 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
892 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
894 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
895 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
896 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
897 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
899 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
900 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
901 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
902 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
904 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
905 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
906 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
907 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
909 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
910 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
911 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
912 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
913 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
914 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
915 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
916 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
917 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
918 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
919 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
920 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
921 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
922 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
923 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
925 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
926 Source field descriptions.
927 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
928 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
929 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
930 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
931 description says otherwise.
933 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
935 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
938 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
939 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
940 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
941 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
942 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
943 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
945 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
946 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
947 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
948 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
950 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
951 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
952 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
953 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
955 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
956 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
957 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
958 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
960 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
961 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
962 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
963 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
967 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
968 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
969 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
970 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
971 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
973 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
974 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
975 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
976 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
978 * Add myself to Uploaders.
981 * Add myself to Uploaders.
982 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
984 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
985 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
986 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
988 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
990 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
992 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
993 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
994 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
995 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
997 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
998 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
999 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
1000 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1002 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
1003 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1004 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1005 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1007 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
1008 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1009 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1010 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1012 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
1013 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1014 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1015 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1017 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
1018 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1019 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1020 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1022 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
1023 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1024 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
1025 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1027 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
1028 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1029 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1030 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
1032 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
1033 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
1034 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1035 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
1037 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
1038 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
1039 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1040 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
1042 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
1043 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1044 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1045 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
1046 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1048 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
1049 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
1050 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
1051 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
1052 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
1053 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
1054 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
1055 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
1056 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
1057 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
1058 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
1059 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
1060 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
1061 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
1062 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
1063 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
1064 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
1065 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
1066 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
1067 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
1068 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
1069 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
1070 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
1071 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
1072 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
1073 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
1074 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
1075 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
1076 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
1077 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
1079 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
1080 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
1081 links was completed long ago.
1082 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
1084 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
1086 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
1089 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
1091 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
1093 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
1096 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
1097 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
1098 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
1099 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
1100 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
1101 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
1102 Millan (Closes: #209008).
1103 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
1104 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
1106 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
1108 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
1110 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
1111 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
1112 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
1113 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
1114 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
1115 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
1116 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
1118 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
1119 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
1120 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
1121 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
1123 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
1124 Küster (Closes: #403391).
1125 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
1126 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
1127 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
1128 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
1129 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
1130 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1131 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1132 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
1133 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1134 Closes: #186700, #458910
1135 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
1136 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1137 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1139 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
1140 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
1141 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
1142 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
1143 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
1144 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
1145 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
1146 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
1148 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
1149 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
1151 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
1152 * Add an md5sums control file.
1153 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
1154 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
1155 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
1156 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
1157 currently part of policy.
1158 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
1159 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
1160 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
1163 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
1165 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
1168 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1169 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
1170 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
1171 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
1172 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
1173 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
1174 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
1175 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
1176 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
1177 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
1178 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
1179 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
1180 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
1181 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
1182 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
1184 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
1186 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
1187 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
1188 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
1190 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
1191 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
1192 list?" (Closes: #412634).
1193 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
1194 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
1195 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
1196 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
1197 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
1198 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
1199 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
1200 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
1201 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
1202 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
1203 debconf specification.
1204 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
1205 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
1207 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
1209 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
1212 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
1213 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
1214 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
1215 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
1217 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
1219 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
1220 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
1221 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
1222 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
1223 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1225 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
1226 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
1227 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
1228 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
1229 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
1230 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
1231 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
1232 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
1233 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
1234 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
1235 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
1236 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
1237 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
1238 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
1239 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
1240 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1242 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1244 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
1245 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
1246 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1247 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
1248 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
1249 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
1250 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
1251 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1253 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1255 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1257 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1258 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1259 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1260 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1261 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1262 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1263 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1265 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1266 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1267 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1268 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1269 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1270 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1271 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1272 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1273 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1274 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1276 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1277 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1278 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1279 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1280 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1281 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1283 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1285 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1287 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1288 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1289 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1290 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1292 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1293 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1295 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1297 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1300 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1301 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1302 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1303 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1304 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1305 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1306 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1307 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1308 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1310 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1311 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1312 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1313 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1314 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1315 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1316 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1317 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1318 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1319 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1320 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1323 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1325 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1328 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1329 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1330 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1331 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1332 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1333 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1334 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1335 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1336 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1337 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1338 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1339 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1340 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1341 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1342 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1343 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1344 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1345 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1346 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1347 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1348 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1349 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1350 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1351 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1352 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1353 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1354 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1356 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1357 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1358 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1359 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1360 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1361 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1362 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1363 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1364 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1365 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1366 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1367 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1368 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1369 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1370 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1371 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1373 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1374 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1376 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1377 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1378 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1379 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1380 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1381 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1382 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1383 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1384 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1385 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1386 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1388 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1390 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1394 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1395 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1396 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1397 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1398 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1399 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1400 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1401 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1402 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1403 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1404 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1405 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1407 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1408 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1409 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1410 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1411 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1412 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1413 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1414 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1415 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1416 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1417 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1418 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1419 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1420 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1421 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1422 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1423 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1424 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1425 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1428 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1430 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1433 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1434 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1435 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1437 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1438 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1439 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1440 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1442 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1444 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1448 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1449 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1450 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1451 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1452 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1453 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1454 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1455 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1456 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1458 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1459 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1460 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1462 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1463 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1464 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1465 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1466 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1467 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1468 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1470 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1471 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1472 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1473 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1475 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1476 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1477 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1478 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1479 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1480 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1481 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1482 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1484 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1485 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1486 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1487 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1488 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1489 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1490 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1491 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1492 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1493 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1494 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1495 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1496 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1497 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1498 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1499 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1500 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1502 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1504 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1507 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1508 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1509 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1510 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1511 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1512 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1513 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1514 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1515 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1517 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1518 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1519 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1520 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1521 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1522 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1523 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1524 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1525 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1526 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1527 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1528 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1529 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1530 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1531 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1532 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1533 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1535 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1536 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1537 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1540 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1541 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1542 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1544 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1545 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1546 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1547 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1548 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1549 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1551 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1552 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1554 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1555 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1556 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1557 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1558 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1559 Closes: #185943, #237049
1561 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1563 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1566 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1569 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1570 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1571 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1572 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1573 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1574 running. closes: Bug#187250
1575 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1576 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1577 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1578 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1579 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1580 user closes: Bug#176506
1582 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1584 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1587 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1588 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1589 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1590 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1591 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1592 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1593 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1594 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1595 deb-building toolchain.
1596 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1597 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1598 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1599 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1600 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1601 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1602 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1603 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1604 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1605 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1606 sections about changelog files.
1608 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1609 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1610 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1611 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1612 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1613 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1615 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1616 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1617 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1618 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1619 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1620 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1621 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1622 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1623 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1624 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1625 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1626 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1627 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1628 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1629 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1630 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1631 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1632 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1633 for the restructuring
1635 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1637 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1642 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1643 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1644 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1645 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1646 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1647 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1649 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1650 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1651 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1652 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1653 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1654 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1655 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1657 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1658 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1659 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1660 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1662 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1664 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1668 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1669 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1670 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1671 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1672 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1674 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1675 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1676 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1677 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1679 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1680 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1681 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1682 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1683 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1684 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1685 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1686 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1687 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1688 offtopic stuff, too.
1689 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1690 script should start it, closes: #60979
1691 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1692 "should", closes: #170019
1693 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1694 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1695 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1696 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1697 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1698 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1699 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1700 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1703 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1705 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1709 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1710 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1711 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1712 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1713 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1714 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1715 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1716 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1718 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1719 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1720 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1721 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1722 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1723 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1724 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1725 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1726 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1728 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1729 file, closes: Bug#65764
1731 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1733 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1736 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1737 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1738 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1739 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1740 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1741 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1742 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1743 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1744 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1745 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1746 details. closes: Bug#133030
1747 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1748 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1749 parts of Bug#161455.
1751 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1753 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1755 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1756 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1757 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1758 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1759 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1760 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1761 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1762 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1763 not. closes: Bug#139820
1764 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1765 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1766 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1767 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1768 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1769 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1770 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1771 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1772 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1773 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1775 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1777 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1778 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1779 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1780 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1781 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1782 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1783 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1784 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1785 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1786 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1787 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1788 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1789 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1790 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1791 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1792 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1793 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1794 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1795 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1796 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1798 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1799 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1800 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1801 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1802 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1803 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1804 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1806 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1807 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1808 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1809 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1810 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1811 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1812 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1813 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1814 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1816 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1818 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1820 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1821 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1822 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1823 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1824 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1825 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1826 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1827 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1828 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1829 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1830 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1831 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1832 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1833 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1834 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1835 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1836 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1837 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1838 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1839 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1840 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1841 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1842 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1844 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1846 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1849 medium, high, emergency.
1850 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1851 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1852 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1853 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1854 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1857 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1858 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1859 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1861 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1862 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1863 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1864 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1865 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1866 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1867 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1870 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1872 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1875 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1876 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1877 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1879 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1880 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1881 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1882 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1883 debian/rules to do this
1884 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1885 patches are incorporated upstream
1886 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1887 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1888 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1889 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1890 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1891 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1893 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1894 system closes: Bug#91249
1895 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1896 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1897 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1898 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1899 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1900 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1901 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1902 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1903 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1904 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1905 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1906 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1907 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1909 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1911 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1913 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1914 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1915 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1916 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1918 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1919 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1920 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1922 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1925 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1927 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1929 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1930 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1931 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1932 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1933 package for the time being
1934 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1935 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1936 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1937 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1938 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1939 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1940 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1941 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1942 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1943 Build-Depends arch syntax
1944 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1946 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1947 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1949 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1950 from policy maintenance duties.
1951 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1952 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1954 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1956 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1960 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1962 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1965 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1966 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1967 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1968 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1969 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1970 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1971 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1972 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1973 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1974 minor version number for this
1975 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1976 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1977 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1978 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1979 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1980 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1981 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1982 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1983 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1985 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1987 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1990 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1991 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1992 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1993 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1995 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1997 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1998 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1999 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
2000 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
2001 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
2002 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
2003 xutils closes: Bug#82966
2004 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
2005 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
2006 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
2007 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
2008 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
2009 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
2010 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
2011 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
2012 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
2015 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
2017 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2019 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
2020 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
2022 * Document the Enhances relationship
2023 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
2024 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
2025 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
2026 policy. closes: Bug#53496
2027 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
2028 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
2030 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
2032 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
2033 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
2034 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
2035 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
2037 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
2038 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
2039 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
2040 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
2041 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
2043 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
2045 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
2048 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
2049 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
2051 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
2052 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
2053 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
2054 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
2055 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
2056 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
2057 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
2058 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
2059 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
2061 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
2063 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
2065 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
2068 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
2069 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
2070 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
2071 policy. closes: Bug#64437
2072 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
2073 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
2074 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
2075 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
2076 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
2077 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
2078 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
2079 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
2080 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
2081 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
2082 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
2083 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
2084 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
2085 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
2086 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
2087 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
2088 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
2090 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
2091 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
2093 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
2095 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
2098 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
2099 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
2100 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
2101 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
2102 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
2103 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
2104 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
2105 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
2106 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
2107 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
2108 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
2109 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
2110 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
2111 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
2112 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
2113 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
2114 alternative closes: Bug#53755
2115 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
2116 list closes: Bug#53756
2117 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
2118 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
2119 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
2120 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
2121 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
2122 policy closes: Bug#53760
2123 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
2124 policy closes: Bug#53761
2125 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
2126 that use X closes: Bug#53762
2127 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
2128 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
2129 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
2130 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
2131 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
2132 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
2133 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
2134 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
2135 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
2137 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
2138 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
2139 to install with older fileutils.
2140 * Installed FHS version 2.1
2141 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
2142 * Added FHS details to copyright file
2143 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
2145 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
2146 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
2148 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
2150 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
2153 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
2155 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
2157 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
2160 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
2162 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
2165 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2167 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
2168 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
2170 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
2172 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
2174 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2176 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
2177 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
2179 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
2181 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2183 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
2184 #45561, #42447, #48570)
2185 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
2186 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
2187 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
2188 directoried (closes: #41547)
2189 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
2190 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
2191 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
2192 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
2193 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
2194 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
2195 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
2196 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
2197 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
2198 package criteria (closes: #45318)
2199 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
2201 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
2202 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
2203 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
2204 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
2205 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
2206 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
2207 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
2209 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
2210 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
2211 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
2212 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
2214 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
2216 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
2218 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
2219 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
2221 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
2223 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
2226 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
2228 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
2230 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * A few typos and omissions corrected
2233 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
2235 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
2236 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
2237 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
2238 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
2239 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
2240 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
2241 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
2242 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
2243 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
2244 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
2245 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
2246 this closes: Bug#38612
2247 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
2248 before. closes: Bug#40864
2250 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2252 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2254 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2255 officially uploaded.
2256 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2258 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2259 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2260 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2262 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2263 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2264 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2265 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2266 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2267 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2269 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2270 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2271 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2273 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2275 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2276 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2277 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2278 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2279 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2281 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2283 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2285 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2286 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2287 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2288 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2289 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2290 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2291 there). closes: Bug#34233
2292 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2293 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2294 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2295 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2296 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2298 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2300 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2302 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2303 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2304 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2305 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2308 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2309 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2310 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2311 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2312 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2315 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2316 number. closes: BUG#25911
2318 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2319 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2320 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2321 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2322 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2323 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2325 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2326 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2327 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2330 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2331 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2332 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2334 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2335 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2336 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2337 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2339 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2340 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2341 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2343 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2345 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2346 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2347 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2348 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2349 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2350 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2351 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2352 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2355 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2357 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2358 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2361 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2363 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2367 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2369 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2371 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2372 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2373 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2374 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2375 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2376 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2377 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2378 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2380 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2381 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2383 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2385 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2387 * non-maintainer release
2388 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2389 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2391 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2392 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2393 * no content changes
2394 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2396 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2398 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2402 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2404 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2406 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2408 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2409 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2410 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2412 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2413 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2415 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2416 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2417 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2418 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2420 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2421 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2422 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2423 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2424 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2425 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2426 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2428 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2429 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2430 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2433 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2434 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2435 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2437 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2438 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2439 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2441 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2442 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2444 * New version numbering scheme:
2446 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2447 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2448 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2451 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2452 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2453 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2454 differ between the manuals.
2456 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2457 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2458 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2459 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2461 * Packaging changes:
2463 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2464 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2466 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2468 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2470 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2472 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2474 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2475 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2476 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2478 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2479 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2482 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2483 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2484 file extension as the referenced file
2486 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2487 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2489 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2490 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2491 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2492 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2495 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2496 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2497 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2499 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2500 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2501 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2502 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2505 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2506 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2509 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2510 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2511 reasonable default configuration
2513 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2514 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2515 by all news servers and clients
2517 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2518 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2519 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2520 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2521 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2523 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2524 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2527 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2529 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2530 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2532 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2535 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2536 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2538 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2539 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2541 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2543 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2545 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2547 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2548 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2549 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2550 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2552 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2554 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2555 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2556 * Don't use debstd anymore
2558 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2560 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2562 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2563 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2564 contrib/non-free policy
2565 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2566 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2567 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2568 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2569 - new section about `Daemons'
2570 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2571 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2572 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2573 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2574 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2575 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2576 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2577 * SGML source code included in package
2578 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2580 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2582 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2584 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2585 - completely reworked structure
2586 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2587 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2588 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2589 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2590 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2591 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2592 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2593 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2594 - mention "orphaned packages"
2595 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2596 distributions' policy
2597 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2598 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2599 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2600 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2601 - added section about arch spec strings
2602 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2603 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2604 - added section about "menus"
2605 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2606 the new documentation policy soon
2607 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2608 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2610 - added section about editors and pagers
2611 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2612 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2613 - added section about device files
2614 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2615 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2616 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2618 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2619 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2620 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2621 - Added new section about obsolete names
2622 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2623 * Fixed package's description
2625 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2627 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2629 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2631 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2633 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2635 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2636 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2637 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2638 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2640 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2642 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2644 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2645 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2646 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2648 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2649 and upload it "byhand" too.
2651 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2653 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2656 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2657 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2658 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2659 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2660 functionality must not have the same name.
2661 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2662 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2663 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2664 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2665 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2666 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2667 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2669 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2670 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2671 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2672 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2673 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2674 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2675 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2676 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2679 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2681 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2683 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2685 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2686 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2687 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2688 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2689 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2692 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2694 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2696 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2698 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2699 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2700 description of deb file format.
2701 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2702 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2704 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2706 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2707 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2709 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2711 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2713 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2714 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2715 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2716 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2717 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2718 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2719 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2720 packages in section on Procedure
2721 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2722 a package maintainer
2723 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2724 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2725 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2727 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2728 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2729 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2730 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2731 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2732 on various shlib files
2733 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2734 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2735 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2737 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2739 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2741 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2742 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2743 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2745 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2746 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2747 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2748 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2749 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2751 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2753 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2755 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2757 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2759 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2760 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2761 compatibility go in contrib.
2763 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2764 instructions in policy manual.
2765 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2768 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2770 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2772 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2773 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2774 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2775 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2777 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2778 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2781 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2783 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2785 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2786 * More detail about changelog format names.
2788 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2789 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2793 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2795 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2797 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2799 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2801 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2803 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2805 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2807 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2808 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2809 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2811 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2813 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2815 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2817 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2819 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2823 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100