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>
64 * Policy: Drop FHS requirement that /usr/local/lib<qual> exist when /lib<qual>
65 or /usr/lib<qual> does.
66 Wording: Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>
67 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
68 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
69 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
72 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jun 2014 21:43:08 +0200
74 debian-policy (3.9.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
76 * Policy: Document the Package-List field.
77 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
78 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
79 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
81 * Policy: DM-Upload-Allowed is now obsolete
82 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
83 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
84 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
85 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
87 * Policy: Checksums-{Sha1,Sha256} are now mandatory
88 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
89 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
90 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
92 * Policy: Requirements for udebs are not well documented yet
93 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
94 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
95 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
96 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
97 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
99 * Policy: install-info is run by a dpkg trigger.
100 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
101 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
102 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
104 * Policy: Stop recommending to serve HTML documents from /usr/share/doc.
105 Wording: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>
106 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
107 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
109 * Policy: File names encoded in UTF-8. ASCII preferred and mandatory in PATH.
110 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
111 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
112 Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
114 * Policy: Document the Dgit field for Debian Source Control files.
115 Wording: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
116 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
117 Seconded: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
118 Seconded: Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox@debian.org>
120 * Policy: Remove the exception to the FHS for the /selinux directory.
121 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
122 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
123 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
125 * Policy: on upgrades, recommend removing obsolete unchanged conf. files.
126 Wording: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
127 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
128 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
130 * Policy: Control data fields must not start with a hyphen character.
131 Wording: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
132 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
133 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
135 * debconf_spec: Document the 'escape' capability.
136 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
137 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
138 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
140 * virtual-package-names-list: removed mp3-decoder and mp3-encoder.
141 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
142 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
143 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
145 * Clean outdated mentions of dpkg commands in appendix. Thanks, Guillem Jover
146 * Remove outdated mention of dselect documentation.
147 Closes: #700574. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
148 * Update dak reference from old katie name.
149 Closes: #700536. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
150 * Fix typo in 8.6.4. Thanks, Raúl Benencia. (Closes: #691352)
151 * Fix typo in 8.6.4.1. Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>.
152 * Added a warning in appendix G about diverting conffiles.
153 Closes: #703022. Thanks, Torsten Jerzembeck.
154 * List build-arch and build-indep with the other required targets in 4.9.
155 Closes: #704657. Thanks, Philipp Hahn.
156 * Replaced non-standard names of dpkg states by normalised ones.
158 * Clarify what is meant by "compressed" in section 10.5. (Closes: #676784)
159 * Packaging: use the VCS URLs proposed by Lintian.
160 * Packaging: normalised debian/control with the tool "config-model-edit".
161 * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
163 -- Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> Mon, 28 Oct 2013 09:40:48 +0900
165 debian-policy (3.9.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
167 * build-arch and build-indep are now mandatory targets in debian/rules,
168 implementing the Technical Committee ruling in #629385. Wording
169 review by Jonathan Nieder, Jakub Wilk, and Roger Leigh.
171 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding tasks.
172 Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #670429)
173 * Policy: Copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8
174 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
175 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
176 Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
177 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
179 * Policy: Prohibit deprecated < and > relations
180 Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
181 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
182 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
184 * Policy: Document the Built-Using field
185 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
186 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
187 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
189 * Policy: Document the Vcs-* fields
190 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
191 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
192 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
193 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
194 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
196 * Policy: Document restrictions on the use of /run for wheezy
197 Wording: Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
198 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
199 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
201 * Policy: Rewrite shared library dependency policy to document symbols
202 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
203 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
204 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
205 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
207 * Policy: Document generic and upstart-specific init system requirements
208 Wording: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
209 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
210 Seconded: Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
212 * Policy: Rely on triggers instead of calling update-mime
213 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
214 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
215 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
218 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:35:36 -0700
220 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
222 * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source
223 package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)
224 * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.
225 Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)
226 and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and
228 * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking
229 whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending
230 dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)
231 * Remove the ambiguous word "installed" when requiring that the location
232 of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)
233 * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not
234 contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)
235 * Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided
236 (currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist
237 or perform the equivalent actions. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some
238 of the wording. (Closes: #601839)
239 * Clearly state that "yes" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed
240 and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)
241 * Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to
242 reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam
243 Morris. (Closes: #658009)
244 * Fix the legal notice in copyright-format to not refer to a nonexistent
246 * Embed the Debian Policy version and build date in the debconf
247 specification and the copyright-format document. We'll make
248 non-normative changes without updating other version numbers, and it's
249 good to know which version one is looking at.
250 * Fix some whitespace issues in the debconf specification articleinfo.
251 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
252 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
253 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
254 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
255 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
256 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
258 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
259 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
260 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
261 * Expand package long description to include all documents.
262 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
264 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
265 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
266 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
268 * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0, and in the process
269 add the license information for the documents other than Policy itself
270 and the FHS. Note the implication of the GPL source code requirement
271 for distributing generated versions of the Policy documents.
273 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:02:12 -0800
275 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
278 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
279 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
280 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
281 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
282 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
283 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
284 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
285 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
286 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
287 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
288 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
289 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
290 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
291 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
293 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
294 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
295 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
296 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
297 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
299 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
300 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
301 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
302 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
303 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
304 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
306 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
307 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
308 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
309 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
311 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
312 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
313 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
314 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
315 Closes: #620870, #532120
316 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
317 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
318 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
319 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
320 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
322 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
323 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
324 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
325 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
326 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
328 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
329 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
330 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
331 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
332 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
334 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
335 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
336 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
337 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
338 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
339 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
340 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
341 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
342 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
343 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
344 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
345 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
346 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
347 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
348 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
349 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
351 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
353 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
354 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
355 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
356 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
357 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
358 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
359 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
360 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
361 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
362 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
365 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
367 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
368 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
369 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
370 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
371 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
372 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
373 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
375 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
376 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
378 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
379 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
380 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
381 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
382 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
384 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
386 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
387 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
388 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
390 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
391 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
392 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
393 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
395 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
396 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
397 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
399 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
400 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
401 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
402 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
403 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
404 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
406 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
407 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
408 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
409 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
411 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
412 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
413 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
414 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
415 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
417 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
418 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
419 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
420 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
421 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
423 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
424 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
425 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
426 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
428 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
429 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
430 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
431 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
434 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
436 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
438 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
439 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
440 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
441 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
442 Closes: #459868, #581011
443 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
444 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
445 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
446 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
448 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
449 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
450 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
451 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
453 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
454 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
455 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
456 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
458 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
459 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
460 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
461 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
463 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
464 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
465 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
466 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
467 Closes: #501930, #593909
468 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
469 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
470 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
471 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
473 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
474 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
475 machine. (Closes: #591857)
476 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
477 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
478 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
479 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
480 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
481 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
482 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
483 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
484 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
485 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
487 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
488 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
489 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
490 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
491 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
492 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
493 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
494 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
495 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
496 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
497 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
498 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
499 than the version in oldstable.
500 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
501 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
502 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
503 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
504 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
505 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
506 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
507 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
508 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
509 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
510 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
511 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
512 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
513 package. (Closes: #609160)
515 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
517 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
519 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
520 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
521 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
522 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
523 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
525 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
526 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
527 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
528 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
530 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
531 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
532 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
533 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
535 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
536 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
537 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
538 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
539 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
540 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
541 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
542 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
543 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
545 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
546 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
547 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
548 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
550 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
551 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
552 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
553 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
555 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
556 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
557 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
558 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
560 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
561 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
562 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
563 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
565 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
566 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
567 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
568 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
569 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
571 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
572 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
573 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
574 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
575 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
577 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
578 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
579 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
580 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
582 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
583 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
584 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
585 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
587 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
588 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
589 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
590 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
592 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
593 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
594 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
595 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
597 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
598 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
599 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
600 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
602 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
603 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
604 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
605 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
607 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
609 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
610 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
611 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
612 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
613 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
614 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
615 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
616 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
617 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
619 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
620 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
621 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
622 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
623 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
624 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
626 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
628 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
631 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
634 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
637 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
638 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
639 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
640 and distribution license' (three times).
641 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
642 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
643 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
644 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
645 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
647 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
649 Proposed by Santiago Vila
650 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
651 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
652 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
653 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
657 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
658 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
659 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
660 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
662 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
663 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
664 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
665 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
666 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
667 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
669 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
670 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
671 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
672 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
674 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
675 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
676 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
677 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
678 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
680 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
681 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
682 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
683 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
684 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
686 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
687 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
688 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
689 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
690 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
692 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
693 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
694 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
695 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
697 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
698 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
699 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
700 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
701 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
703 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
704 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
705 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
706 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
708 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
709 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
710 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
711 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
713 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
714 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
715 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
716 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
717 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
719 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
720 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
721 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
722 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
724 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
725 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
726 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
727 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
728 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
730 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
731 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
732 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
733 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
735 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
736 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
737 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
738 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
739 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
740 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
741 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
742 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
743 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
744 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
745 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
746 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
747 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
748 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
749 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
750 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
751 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
752 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
753 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
754 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
755 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
756 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
757 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
758 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
759 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
760 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
761 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
762 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
763 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
764 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
765 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
766 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
768 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
770 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
772 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
775 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
776 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
778 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
779 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
783 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
786 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
787 Wording: Steve Langasek.
788 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
789 Seconded: Julien Cristau
790 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
793 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
794 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
795 Seconded: Russ Allbery
796 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
799 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
800 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
801 Seconded: Russ Allbery
803 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
804 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
805 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
806 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
807 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
808 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
809 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
810 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
811 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
813 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
814 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
815 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
816 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
817 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
818 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
819 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
820 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
821 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
822 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
823 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
824 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
825 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
826 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
827 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
828 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
830 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
831 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
832 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
833 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
834 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
836 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
839 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
840 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
841 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
842 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
843 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
844 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
847 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
849 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
851 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
852 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
853 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
854 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
856 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
857 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
858 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
859 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
861 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
862 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
863 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
864 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
866 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
867 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
868 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
869 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
870 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
871 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
873 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
874 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
875 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
876 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
877 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
879 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
880 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
881 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
882 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
884 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
885 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
886 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
887 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
889 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
890 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
891 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
892 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
894 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
895 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
896 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
897 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
899 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
900 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
901 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
902 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
904 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
905 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
906 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
907 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
908 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
909 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
910 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
911 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
912 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
913 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
914 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
915 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
916 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
917 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
918 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
920 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
921 Source field descriptions.
922 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
923 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
924 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
925 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
926 description says otherwise.
928 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
930 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
933 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
934 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
935 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
936 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
937 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
938 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
940 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
941 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
942 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
943 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
945 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
946 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
947 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
948 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
950 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
951 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
952 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
953 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
955 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
956 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
957 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
958 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
962 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
963 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
964 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
965 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
966 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
968 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
969 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
970 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
971 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
973 * Add myself to Uploaders.
976 * Add myself to Uploaders.
977 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
979 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
980 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
981 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
983 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
985 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
987 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
988 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
989 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
990 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
992 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
993 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
994 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
995 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
997 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
998 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
999 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1000 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1002 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
1003 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1004 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1005 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1007 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
1008 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1009 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1010 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1012 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
1013 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1014 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1015 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1017 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
1018 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1019 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
1020 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1022 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
1023 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1024 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1025 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
1027 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
1028 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
1029 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1030 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
1032 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
1033 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
1034 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1035 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
1037 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
1038 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1039 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1040 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
1041 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1043 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
1044 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
1045 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
1046 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
1047 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
1048 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
1049 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
1050 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
1051 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
1052 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
1053 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
1054 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
1055 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
1056 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
1057 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
1058 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
1059 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
1060 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
1061 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
1062 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
1063 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
1064 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
1065 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
1066 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
1067 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
1068 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
1069 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
1070 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
1071 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
1072 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
1074 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
1075 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
1076 links was completed long ago.
1077 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
1079 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
1081 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
1084 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
1086 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
1088 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
1091 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
1092 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
1093 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
1094 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
1095 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
1096 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
1097 Millan (Closes: #209008).
1098 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
1099 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
1101 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
1103 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
1105 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
1106 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
1107 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
1108 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
1109 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
1110 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
1111 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
1113 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
1114 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
1115 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
1116 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
1118 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
1119 Küster (Closes: #403391).
1120 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
1121 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
1122 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
1123 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
1124 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
1125 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1126 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1127 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
1128 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1129 Closes: #186700, #458910
1130 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
1131 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1132 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1134 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
1135 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
1136 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
1137 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
1138 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
1139 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
1140 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
1141 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
1143 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
1144 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
1146 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
1147 * Add an md5sums control file.
1148 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
1149 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
1150 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
1151 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
1152 currently part of policy.
1153 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
1154 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
1155 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
1158 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
1160 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1162 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
1163 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1164 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
1165 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
1166 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
1167 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
1168 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
1169 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
1170 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
1171 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
1172 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
1173 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
1174 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
1175 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
1176 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
1177 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
1179 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
1181 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
1182 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
1183 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
1185 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
1186 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
1187 list?" (Closes: #412634).
1188 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
1189 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
1190 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
1191 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
1192 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
1193 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
1194 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
1195 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
1196 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
1197 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
1198 debconf specification.
1199 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
1200 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
1202 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
1204 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
1207 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
1208 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
1209 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
1210 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
1212 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
1214 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
1215 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
1216 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
1217 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
1218 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1220 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
1221 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
1222 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
1223 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
1224 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
1225 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
1226 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
1227 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
1228 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
1229 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
1230 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
1231 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
1232 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
1233 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
1234 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
1235 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1237 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1239 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
1240 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
1241 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1242 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
1243 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
1244 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
1245 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
1246 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1248 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1250 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1253 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1254 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1255 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1256 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1257 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1258 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1260 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1261 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1262 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1263 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1264 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1265 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1266 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1267 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1268 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1269 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1271 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1272 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1273 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1274 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1275 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1276 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1278 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1280 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1283 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1284 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1285 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1287 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1288 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1290 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1292 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1294 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1295 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1296 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1297 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1298 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1299 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1300 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1301 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1302 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1303 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1305 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1306 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1307 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1308 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1309 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1310 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1311 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1312 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1313 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1314 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1315 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1318 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1320 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1323 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1324 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1325 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1326 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1327 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1328 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1329 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1330 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1331 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1332 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1333 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1334 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1335 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1336 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1337 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1338 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1339 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1340 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1341 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1342 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1343 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1344 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1345 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1346 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1347 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1348 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1349 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1351 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1352 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1353 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1354 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1355 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1356 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1357 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1358 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1359 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1360 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1361 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1362 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1363 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1364 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1365 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1366 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1368 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1369 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1371 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1372 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1373 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1374 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1375 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1376 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1377 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1378 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1379 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1380 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1381 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1383 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1385 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1388 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1389 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1390 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1391 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1392 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1393 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1394 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1395 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1396 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1397 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1398 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1399 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1400 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1402 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1403 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1404 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1405 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1406 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1407 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1408 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1409 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1410 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1411 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1412 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1413 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1414 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1415 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1416 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1417 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1418 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1419 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1420 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1423 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1425 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1428 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1429 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1430 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1432 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1433 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1434 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1435 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1437 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1439 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1443 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1444 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1445 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1446 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1447 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1448 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1449 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1450 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1451 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1453 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1454 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1455 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1457 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1458 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1459 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1460 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1461 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1462 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1463 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1465 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1466 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1467 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1468 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1470 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1471 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1472 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1473 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1474 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1475 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1476 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1477 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1479 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1480 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1481 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1482 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1483 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1484 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1485 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1486 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1487 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1488 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1489 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1490 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1491 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1492 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1493 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1494 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1495 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1497 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1499 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1503 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1504 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1505 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1506 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1507 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1508 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1509 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1510 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1512 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1513 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1514 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1515 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1516 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1517 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1518 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1519 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1520 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1521 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1522 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1523 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1524 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1525 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1526 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1527 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1528 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1530 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1531 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1532 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1535 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1536 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1537 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1539 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1540 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1541 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1542 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1543 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1544 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1546 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1547 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1549 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1550 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1551 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1552 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1553 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1554 Closes: #185943, #237049
1556 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1558 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1564 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1565 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1566 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1567 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1568 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1569 running. closes: Bug#187250
1570 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1571 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1572 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1573 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1574 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1575 user closes: Bug#176506
1577 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1579 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1583 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1584 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1585 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1586 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1587 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1588 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1589 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1590 deb-building toolchain.
1591 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1592 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1593 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1594 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1595 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1596 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1597 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1598 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1599 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1600 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1601 sections about changelog files.
1603 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1604 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1605 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1606 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1607 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1608 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1610 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1611 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1612 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1613 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1614 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1615 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1616 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1617 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1618 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1619 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1620 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1621 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1622 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1623 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1624 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1625 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1626 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1627 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1628 for the restructuring
1630 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1632 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1637 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1638 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1639 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1640 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1641 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1642 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1644 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1645 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1646 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1647 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1648 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1649 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1650 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1652 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1653 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1654 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1655 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1657 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1659 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1663 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1664 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1665 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1666 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1667 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1669 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1670 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1671 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1672 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1674 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1675 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1676 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1677 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1678 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1679 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1680 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1681 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1682 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1683 offtopic stuff, too.
1684 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1685 script should start it, closes: #60979
1686 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1687 "should", closes: #170019
1688 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1689 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1690 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1691 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1692 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1693 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1694 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1695 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1698 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1700 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1704 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1705 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1706 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1707 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1708 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1709 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1710 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1711 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1713 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1714 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1715 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1716 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1717 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1718 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1719 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1720 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1721 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1723 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1724 file, closes: Bug#65764
1726 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1728 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1730 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1731 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1732 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1733 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1734 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1735 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1736 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1737 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1738 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1739 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1740 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1741 details. closes: Bug#133030
1742 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1743 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1744 parts of Bug#161455.
1746 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1748 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1751 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1752 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1753 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1754 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1755 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1756 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1757 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1758 not. closes: Bug#139820
1759 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1760 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1761 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1762 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1763 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1764 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1765 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1766 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1767 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1768 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1770 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1772 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1773 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1774 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1775 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1776 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1777 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1778 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1779 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1780 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1781 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1782 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1783 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1784 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1785 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1786 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1787 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1788 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1789 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1790 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1791 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1793 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1794 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1795 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1796 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1797 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1798 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1799 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1801 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1802 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1803 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1804 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1805 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1806 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1807 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1808 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1809 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1811 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1813 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1816 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1817 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1818 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1819 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1820 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1821 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1822 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1823 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1824 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1825 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1826 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1827 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1828 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1829 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1830 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1831 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1832 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1833 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1834 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1835 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1836 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1837 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1839 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1841 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1844 medium, high, emergency.
1845 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1846 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1847 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1848 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1849 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1852 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1853 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1854 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1856 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1857 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1858 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1859 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1860 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1861 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1862 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1865 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1867 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1870 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1871 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1872 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1874 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1875 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1876 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1877 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1878 debian/rules to do this
1879 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1880 patches are incorporated upstream
1881 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1882 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1883 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1884 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1885 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1886 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1888 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1889 system closes: Bug#91249
1890 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1891 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1892 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1893 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1894 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1895 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1896 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1897 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1898 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1899 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1900 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1901 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1902 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1904 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1906 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1909 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1910 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1911 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1913 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1914 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1915 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1917 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1920 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1922 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1925 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1926 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1927 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1928 package for the time being
1929 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1930 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1931 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1932 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1933 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1934 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1935 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1936 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1937 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1938 Build-Depends arch syntax
1939 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1941 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1942 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1944 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1945 from policy maintenance duties.
1946 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1947 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1949 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1951 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1953 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1955 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1957 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1960 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1961 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1962 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1963 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1964 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1965 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1966 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1967 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1968 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1969 minor version number for this
1970 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1971 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1972 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1973 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1974 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1975 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1976 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1977 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1978 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1980 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1982 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1985 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1986 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1987 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1988 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1990 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1992 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1993 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1994 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1995 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1996 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1997 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1998 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1999 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
2000 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
2001 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
2002 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
2003 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
2004 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
2005 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
2006 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
2007 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
2010 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
2012 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2014 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
2015 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
2017 * Document the Enhances relationship
2018 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
2019 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
2020 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
2021 policy. closes: Bug#53496
2022 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
2023 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
2025 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
2027 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
2028 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
2029 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
2030 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
2032 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
2033 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
2034 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
2035 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
2036 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
2038 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
2040 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2042 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
2043 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
2044 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
2046 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
2047 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
2048 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
2049 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
2050 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
2051 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
2052 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
2053 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
2054 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
2056 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
2058 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
2060 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2062 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
2063 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
2064 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
2065 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
2066 policy. closes: Bug#64437
2067 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
2068 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
2069 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
2070 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
2071 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
2072 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
2073 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
2074 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
2075 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
2076 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
2077 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
2078 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
2079 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
2080 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
2081 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
2082 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
2083 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
2085 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
2086 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
2088 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
2090 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
2093 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
2094 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
2095 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
2096 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
2097 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
2098 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
2099 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
2100 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
2101 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
2102 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
2103 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
2104 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
2105 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
2106 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
2107 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
2108 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
2109 alternative closes: Bug#53755
2110 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
2111 list closes: Bug#53756
2112 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
2113 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
2114 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
2115 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
2116 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
2117 policy closes: Bug#53760
2118 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
2119 policy closes: Bug#53761
2120 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
2121 that use X closes: Bug#53762
2122 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
2123 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
2124 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
2125 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
2126 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
2127 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
2128 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
2129 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
2130 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
2132 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
2133 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
2134 to install with older fileutils.
2135 * Installed FHS version 2.1
2136 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
2137 * Added FHS details to copyright file
2138 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
2140 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
2141 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
2143 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
2145 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
2148 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
2150 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
2152 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2154 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
2155 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
2157 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
2160 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
2163 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
2165 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
2167 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
2169 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2171 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
2172 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
2174 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
2176 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2178 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
2179 #45561, #42447, #48570)
2180 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
2181 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
2182 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
2183 directoried (closes: #41547)
2184 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
2185 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
2186 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
2187 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
2188 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
2189 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
2190 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
2191 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
2192 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
2193 package criteria (closes: #45318)
2194 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
2196 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
2197 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
2198 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
2199 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
2200 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
2201 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
2202 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
2204 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
2205 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
2206 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
2207 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
2209 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
2211 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
2213 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
2214 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
2216 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
2218 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
2221 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
2223 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
2225 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2227 * A few typos and omissions corrected
2228 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
2230 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
2231 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
2232 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
2233 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
2234 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
2235 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
2236 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
2237 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
2238 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
2239 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
2240 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
2241 this closes: Bug#38612
2242 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
2243 before. closes: Bug#40864
2245 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2247 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2249 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2250 officially uploaded.
2251 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2253 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2254 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2255 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2257 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2258 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2259 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2260 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2261 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2262 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2264 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2265 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2266 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2268 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2270 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2271 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2272 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2273 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2274 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2276 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2278 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2281 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2282 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2283 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2284 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2285 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2286 there). closes: Bug#34233
2287 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2288 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2289 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2290 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2291 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2293 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2295 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2298 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2299 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2300 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2303 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2304 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2305 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2306 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2307 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2310 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2311 number. closes: BUG#25911
2313 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2314 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2315 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2316 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2317 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2318 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2320 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2321 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2322 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2325 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2326 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2327 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2329 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2330 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2331 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2332 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2334 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2335 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2336 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2338 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2340 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2341 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2342 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2343 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2344 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2345 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2346 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2347 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2350 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2352 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2353 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2356 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2358 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2362 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2364 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2367 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2368 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2369 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2370 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2371 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2372 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2373 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2375 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2376 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2378 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2380 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2382 * non-maintainer release
2383 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2384 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2386 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2387 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2388 * no content changes
2389 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2391 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2393 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2397 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2399 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2401 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2403 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2404 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2405 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2407 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2408 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2410 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2411 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2412 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2413 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2415 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2416 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2417 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2418 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2419 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2420 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2421 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2423 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2424 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2425 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2428 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2429 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2430 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2432 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2433 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2434 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2436 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2437 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2439 * New version numbering scheme:
2441 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2442 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2443 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2446 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2447 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2448 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2449 differ between the manuals.
2451 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2452 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2453 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2454 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2456 * Packaging changes:
2458 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2459 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2461 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2463 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2465 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2467 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2469 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2470 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2471 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2473 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2474 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2477 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2478 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2479 file extension as the referenced file
2481 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2482 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2484 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2485 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2486 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2487 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2490 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2491 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2492 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2494 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2495 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2496 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2497 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2500 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2501 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2504 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2505 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2506 reasonable default configuration
2508 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2509 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2510 by all news servers and clients
2512 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2513 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2514 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2515 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2516 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2518 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2519 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2522 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2524 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2525 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2527 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2530 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2531 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2533 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2534 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2536 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2538 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2540 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2543 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2544 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2545 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2547 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2549 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2550 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2551 * Don't use debstd anymore
2553 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2555 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2557 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2558 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2559 contrib/non-free policy
2560 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2561 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2562 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2563 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2564 - new section about `Daemons'
2565 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2566 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2567 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2568 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2569 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2570 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2571 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2572 * SGML source code included in package
2573 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2575 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2577 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2579 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2580 - completely reworked structure
2581 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2582 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2583 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2584 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2585 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2586 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2587 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2588 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2589 - mention "orphaned packages"
2590 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2591 distributions' policy
2592 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2593 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2594 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2595 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2596 - added section about arch spec strings
2597 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2598 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2599 - added section about "menus"
2600 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2601 the new documentation policy soon
2602 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2603 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2605 - added section about editors and pagers
2606 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2607 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2608 - added section about device files
2609 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2610 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2611 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2613 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2614 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2615 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2616 - Added new section about obsolete names
2617 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2618 * Fixed package's description
2620 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2622 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2624 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2626 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2628 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2630 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2631 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2632 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2633 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2635 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2637 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2639 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2640 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2641 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2643 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2644 and upload it "byhand" too.
2646 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2648 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2651 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2652 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2653 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2654 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2655 functionality must not have the same name.
2656 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2657 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2658 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2659 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2660 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2661 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2662 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2664 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2665 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2666 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2667 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2668 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2669 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2670 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2671 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2674 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2676 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2678 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2680 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2681 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2682 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2683 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2684 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2687 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2689 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2691 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2693 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2694 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2695 description of deb file format.
2696 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2697 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2699 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2701 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2702 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2704 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2706 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2708 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2709 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2710 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2711 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2712 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2713 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2714 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2715 packages in section on Procedure
2716 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2717 a package maintainer
2718 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2719 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2720 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2722 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2723 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2724 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2725 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2726 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2727 on various shlib files
2728 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2729 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2730 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2732 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2734 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2736 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2737 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2738 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2740 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2741 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2742 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2743 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2744 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2746 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2748 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2750 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2752 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2754 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2755 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2756 compatibility go in contrib.
2758 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2759 instructions in policy manual.
2760 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2763 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2765 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2767 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2768 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2769 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2770 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2772 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2773 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2776 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2778 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2780 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2781 * More detail about changelog format names.
2783 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2784 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2788 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2790 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2792 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2794 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2796 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2798 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2800 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2802 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2803 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2804 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2806 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2808 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2810 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2812 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2814 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2818 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100