1 debian-policy (3.9.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
3 * upgrading-checklist.sgml: remove spurious 'details in' leftover from
4 the HTML transition. Closes: #740100. Thanks Jakub Wilk.
5 * Fix use of metasyntactic variable in [11.5.1] Web servers and applications
6 Closes: #737730. Thanks Olivier Berger.
8 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Thu, 27 Feb 2014 18:08:18 +0100
10 debian-policy (3.9.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
12 * Policy: Document the Package-List field.
13 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
14 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
15 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
17 * Policy: DM-Upload-Allowed is now obsolete
18 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
19 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
20 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
21 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
23 * Policy: Checksums-{Sha1,Sha256} are now mandatory
24 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
25 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
26 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
28 * Policy: Requirements for udebs are not well documented yet
29 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
30 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
31 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
32 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
33 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
35 * Policy: install-info is run by a dpkg trigger.
36 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
37 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
38 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
40 * Policy: Stop recommending to serve HTML documents from /usr/share/doc.
41 Wording: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>
42 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
43 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
45 * Policy: File names encoded in UTF-8. ASCII preferred and mandatory in PATH.
46 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
47 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
48 Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
50 * Policy: Document the Dgit field for Debian Source Control files.
51 Wording: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
52 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
53 Seconded: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
54 Seconded: Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox@debian.org>
56 * Policy: Remove the exception to the FHS for the /selinux directory.
57 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
58 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
59 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
61 * Policy: on upgrades, recommend removing obsolete unchanged conf. files.
62 Wording: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
63 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
64 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
66 * Policy: Control data fields must not start with a hyphen character.
67 Wording: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
68 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
69 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
71 * debconf_spec: Document the 'escape' capability.
72 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
73 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
74 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
76 * virtual-package-names-list: removed mp3-decoder and mp3-encoder.
77 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
78 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
79 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
81 * Clean outdated mentions of dpkg commands in appendix. Thanks, Guillem Jover
82 * Remove outdated mention of dselect documentation.
83 Closes: #700574. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
84 * Update dak reference from old katie name.
85 Closes: #700536. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
86 * Fix typo in 8.6.4. Thanks, Raúl Benencia. (Closes: #691352)
87 * Fix typo in 8.6.4.1. Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>.
88 * Added a warning in appendix G about diverting conffiles.
89 Closes: #703022. Thanks, Torsten Jerzembeck.
90 * List build-arch and build-indep with the other required targets in 4.9.
91 Closes: #704657. Thanks, Philipp Hahn.
92 * Replaced non-standard names of dpkg states by normalised ones.
94 * Clarify what is meant by "compressed" in section 10.5. (Closes: #676784)
95 * Packaging: use the VCS URLs proposed by Lintian.
96 * Packaging: normalised debian/control with the tool "config-model-edit".
97 * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
99 -- Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> Mon, 28 Oct 2013 09:40:48 +0900
101 debian-policy (3.9.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
103 * build-arch and build-indep are now mandatory targets in debian/rules,
104 implementing the Technical Committee ruling in #629385. Wording
105 review by Jonathan Nieder, Jakub Wilk, and Roger Leigh.
107 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding tasks.
108 Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #670429)
109 * Policy: Copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8
110 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
111 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
112 Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
113 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
115 * Policy: Prohibit deprecated < and > relations
116 Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
117 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
118 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
120 * Policy: Document the Built-Using field
121 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
122 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
123 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
125 * Policy: Document the Vcs-* fields
126 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
127 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
128 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
129 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
130 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
132 * Policy: Document restrictions on the use of /run for wheezy
133 Wording: Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
134 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
135 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
137 * Policy: Rewrite shared library dependency policy to document symbols
138 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
139 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
140 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
141 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
143 * Policy: Document generic and upstart-specific init system requirements
144 Wording: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
145 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
146 Seconded: Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
148 * Policy: Rely on triggers instead of calling update-mime
149 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
150 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
151 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
154 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:35:36 -0700
156 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
158 * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source
159 package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)
160 * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.
161 Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)
162 and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and
164 * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking
165 whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending
166 dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)
167 * Remove the ambiguous word "installed" when requiring that the location
168 of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)
169 * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not
170 contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)
171 * Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided
172 (currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist
173 or perform the equivalent actions. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some
174 of the wording. (Closes: #601839)
175 * Clearly state that "yes" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed
176 and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)
177 * Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to
178 reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam
179 Morris. (Closes: #658009)
180 * Fix the legal notice in copyright-format to not refer to a nonexistent
182 * Embed the Debian Policy version and build date in the debconf
183 specification and the copyright-format document. We'll make
184 non-normative changes without updating other version numbers, and it's
185 good to know which version one is looking at.
186 * Fix some whitespace issues in the debconf specification articleinfo.
187 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
188 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
189 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
190 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
191 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
192 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
194 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
195 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
196 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
197 * Expand package long description to include all documents.
198 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
200 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
201 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
202 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
204 * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0, and in the process
205 add the license information for the documents other than Policy itself
206 and the FHS. Note the implication of the GPL source code requirement
207 for distributing generated versions of the Policy documents.
209 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:02:12 -0800
211 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
214 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
215 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
216 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
217 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
218 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
219 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
220 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
221 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
222 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
223 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
224 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
225 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
226 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
227 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
229 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
230 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
231 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
232 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
233 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
235 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
236 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
237 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
238 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
239 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
240 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
242 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
243 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
244 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
245 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
247 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
248 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
249 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
250 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
251 Closes: #620870, #532120
252 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
253 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
254 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
255 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
256 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
258 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
259 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
260 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
261 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
262 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
264 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
265 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
266 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
267 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
268 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
270 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
271 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
272 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
273 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
274 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
275 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
276 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
277 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
278 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
279 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
280 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
281 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
282 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
283 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
284 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
285 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
287 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
289 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
290 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
291 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
292 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
293 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
294 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
295 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
296 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
297 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
298 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
301 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
303 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
304 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
305 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
306 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
307 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
308 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
309 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
311 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
312 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
314 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
315 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
316 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
317 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
318 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
320 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
322 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
323 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
324 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
326 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
327 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
328 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
329 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
331 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
332 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
333 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
335 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
336 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
337 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
338 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
339 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
340 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
342 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
343 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
344 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
345 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
347 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
348 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
349 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
350 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
351 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
353 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
354 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
355 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
356 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
357 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
359 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
360 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
361 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
362 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
364 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
365 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
366 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
367 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
370 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
372 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
374 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
375 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
376 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
377 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
378 Closes: #459868, #581011
379 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
380 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
381 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
382 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
384 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
385 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
386 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
387 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
389 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
390 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
391 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
392 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
394 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
395 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
396 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
397 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
399 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
400 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
401 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
402 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
403 Closes: #501930, #593909
404 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
405 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
406 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
407 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
409 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
410 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
411 machine. (Closes: #591857)
412 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
413 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
414 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
415 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
416 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
417 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
418 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
419 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
420 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
421 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
423 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
424 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
425 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
426 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
427 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
428 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
429 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
430 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
431 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
432 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
433 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
434 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
435 than the version in oldstable.
436 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
437 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
438 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
439 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
440 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
441 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
442 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
443 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
444 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
445 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
446 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
447 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
448 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
449 package. (Closes: #609160)
451 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
453 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
455 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
456 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
457 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
458 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
459 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
461 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
462 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
463 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
464 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
466 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
467 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
468 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
469 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
471 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
472 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
473 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
474 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
475 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
476 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
477 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
478 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
479 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
481 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
482 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
483 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
484 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
486 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
487 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
488 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
489 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
491 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
492 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
493 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
494 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
496 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
497 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
498 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
499 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
501 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
502 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
503 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
504 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
505 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
507 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
508 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
509 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
510 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
511 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
513 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
514 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
515 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
516 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
518 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
519 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
520 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
521 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
523 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
524 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
525 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
526 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
528 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
529 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
530 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
531 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
533 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
534 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
535 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
536 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
538 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
539 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
540 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
541 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
543 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
545 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
546 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
547 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
548 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
549 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
550 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
551 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
552 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
553 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
555 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
556 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
557 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
558 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
559 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
560 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
562 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
564 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
567 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
570 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
573 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
574 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
575 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
576 and distribution license' (three times).
577 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
578 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
579 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
580 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
581 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
583 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
585 Proposed by Santiago Vila
586 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
587 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
588 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
589 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
593 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
594 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
595 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
596 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
598 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
599 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
600 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
601 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
602 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
603 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
605 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
606 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
607 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
608 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
610 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
611 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
612 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
613 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
614 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
616 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
617 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
618 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
619 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
620 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
622 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
623 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
624 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
625 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
626 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
628 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
629 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
630 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
631 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
633 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
634 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
635 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
636 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
637 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
639 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
640 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
641 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
642 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
644 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
645 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
646 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
647 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
649 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
650 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
651 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
652 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
653 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
655 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
656 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
657 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
658 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
660 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
661 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
662 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
663 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
664 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
666 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
667 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
668 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
669 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
671 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
672 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
673 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
674 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
675 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
676 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
677 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
678 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
679 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
680 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
681 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
682 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
683 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
684 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
685 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
686 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
687 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
688 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
689 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
690 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
691 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
692 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
693 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
694 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
695 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
696 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
697 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
698 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
699 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
700 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
701 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
702 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
704 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
706 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
708 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
711 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
712 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
714 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
715 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
719 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
722 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
723 Wording: Steve Langasek.
724 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
725 Seconded: Julien Cristau
726 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
729 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
730 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
731 Seconded: Russ Allbery
732 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
735 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
736 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
737 Seconded: Russ Allbery
739 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
740 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
741 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
742 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
743 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
744 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
745 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
746 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
747 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
749 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
750 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
751 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
752 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
753 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
754 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
755 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
756 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
757 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
758 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
759 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
760 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
761 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
762 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
763 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
764 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
766 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
767 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
768 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
769 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
770 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
772 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
775 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
776 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
777 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
778 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
779 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
780 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
783 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
785 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
787 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
788 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
789 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
790 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
792 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
793 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
794 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
795 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
797 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
798 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
799 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
800 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
802 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
803 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
804 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
805 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
806 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
807 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
809 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
810 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
811 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
812 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
813 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
815 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
816 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
817 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
818 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
820 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
821 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
822 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
823 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
825 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
826 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
827 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
828 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
830 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
831 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
832 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
833 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
835 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
836 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
837 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
838 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
840 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
841 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
842 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
843 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
844 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
845 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
846 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
847 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
848 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
849 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
850 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
851 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
852 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
853 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
854 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
856 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
857 Source field descriptions.
858 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
859 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
860 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
861 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
862 description says otherwise.
864 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
866 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
869 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
870 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
871 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
872 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
873 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
874 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
876 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
877 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
878 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
879 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
881 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
882 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
883 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
884 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
886 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
887 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
888 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
889 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
891 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
892 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
893 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
894 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
898 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
899 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
900 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
901 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
902 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
904 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
905 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
906 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
907 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
909 * Add myself to Uploaders.
912 * Add myself to Uploaders.
913 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
915 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
916 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
917 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
919 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
921 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
923 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
924 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
925 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
926 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
928 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
929 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
930 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
931 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
933 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
934 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
935 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
936 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
938 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
939 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
940 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
941 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
943 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
944 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
945 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
946 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
948 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
949 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
950 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
951 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
953 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
954 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
955 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
956 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
958 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
959 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
960 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
961 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
963 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
964 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
965 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
966 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
968 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
969 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
970 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
971 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
973 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
974 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
975 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
976 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
977 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
979 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
980 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
981 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
982 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
983 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
984 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
985 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
986 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
987 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
988 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
989 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
990 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
991 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
992 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
993 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
994 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
995 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
996 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
997 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
998 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
999 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
1000 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
1001 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
1002 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
1003 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
1004 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
1005 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
1006 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
1007 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
1008 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
1010 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
1011 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
1012 links was completed long ago.
1013 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
1015 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
1017 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1019 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
1020 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
1022 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
1024 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1026 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
1027 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
1028 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
1029 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
1030 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
1031 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
1032 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
1033 Millan (Closes: #209008).
1034 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
1035 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
1037 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
1039 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
1041 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
1042 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
1043 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
1044 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
1045 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
1046 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
1047 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
1049 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
1050 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
1051 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
1052 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
1054 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
1055 Küster (Closes: #403391).
1056 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
1057 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
1058 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
1059 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
1060 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
1061 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1062 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1063 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
1064 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1065 Closes: #186700, #458910
1066 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
1067 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1068 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1070 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
1071 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
1072 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
1073 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
1074 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
1075 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
1076 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
1077 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
1079 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
1080 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
1082 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
1083 * Add an md5sums control file.
1084 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
1085 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
1086 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
1087 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
1088 currently part of policy.
1089 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
1090 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
1091 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
1094 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
1096 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
1099 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1100 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
1101 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
1102 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
1103 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
1104 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
1105 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
1106 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
1107 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
1108 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
1109 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
1110 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
1111 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
1112 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
1113 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
1115 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
1117 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
1118 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
1119 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
1121 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
1122 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
1123 list?" (Closes: #412634).
1124 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
1125 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
1126 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
1127 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
1128 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
1129 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
1130 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
1131 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
1132 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
1133 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
1134 debconf specification.
1135 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
1136 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
1138 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
1140 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
1143 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
1144 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
1145 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
1146 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
1148 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
1150 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
1151 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
1152 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
1153 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
1154 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1156 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
1157 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
1158 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
1159 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
1160 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
1161 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
1162 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
1163 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
1164 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
1165 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
1166 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
1167 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
1168 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
1169 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
1170 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
1171 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1173 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1175 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
1176 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
1177 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1178 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
1179 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
1180 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
1181 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
1182 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1184 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1186 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1189 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1190 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1191 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1192 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1193 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1194 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1196 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1197 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1198 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1199 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1200 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1201 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1202 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1203 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1204 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1205 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1207 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1208 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1209 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1210 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1211 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1212 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1214 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1216 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1219 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1220 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1221 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1223 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1224 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1226 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1228 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1231 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1232 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1233 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1234 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1235 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1236 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1237 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1238 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1239 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1241 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1242 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1243 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1244 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1245 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1246 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1247 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1248 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1249 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1250 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1251 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1254 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1256 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1259 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1260 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1261 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1262 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1263 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1264 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1265 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1266 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1267 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1268 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1269 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1270 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1271 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1272 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1273 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1274 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1275 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1276 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1277 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1278 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1279 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1280 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1281 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1282 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1283 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1284 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1285 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1287 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1288 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1289 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1290 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1291 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1292 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1293 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1294 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1295 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1296 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1297 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1298 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1299 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1300 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1301 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1302 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1304 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1305 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1307 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1308 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1309 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1310 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1311 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1312 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1313 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1314 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1315 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1316 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1317 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1319 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1321 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1324 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1325 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1326 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1327 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1328 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1329 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1330 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1331 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1332 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1333 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1334 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1335 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1336 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1338 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1339 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1340 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1341 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1342 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1343 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1344 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1345 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1346 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1347 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1348 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1349 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1350 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1351 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1352 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1353 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1354 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1355 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1356 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1359 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1361 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1363 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1364 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1365 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1366 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1368 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1369 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1370 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1371 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1373 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1375 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1379 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1380 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1381 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1382 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1383 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1384 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1385 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1386 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1387 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1389 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1390 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1391 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1393 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1394 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1395 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1396 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1397 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1398 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1399 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1401 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1402 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1403 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1404 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1406 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1407 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1408 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1409 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1410 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1411 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1412 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1413 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1415 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1416 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1417 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1418 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1419 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1420 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1421 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1422 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1423 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1424 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1425 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1426 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1427 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1428 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1429 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1430 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1431 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1433 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1435 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1439 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1440 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1441 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1442 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1443 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1444 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1445 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1446 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1448 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1449 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1450 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1451 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1452 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1453 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1454 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1455 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1456 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1457 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1458 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1459 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1460 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1461 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1462 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1463 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1464 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1466 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1467 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1468 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1471 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1472 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1473 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1475 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1476 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1477 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1478 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1479 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1480 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1482 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1483 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1485 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1486 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1487 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1488 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1489 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1490 Closes: #185943, #237049
1492 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1494 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1500 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1501 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1502 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1503 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1504 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1505 running. closes: Bug#187250
1506 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1507 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1508 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1509 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1510 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1511 user closes: Bug#176506
1513 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1515 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1518 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1519 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1520 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1521 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1522 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1523 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1524 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1525 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1526 deb-building toolchain.
1527 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1528 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1529 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1530 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1531 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1532 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1533 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1534 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1535 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1536 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1537 sections about changelog files.
1539 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1540 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1541 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1542 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1543 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1544 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1546 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1547 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1548 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1549 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1550 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1551 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1552 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1553 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1554 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1555 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1556 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1557 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1558 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1559 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1560 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1561 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1562 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1563 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1564 for the restructuring
1566 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1568 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1573 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1574 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1575 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1576 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1577 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1578 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1580 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1581 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1582 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1583 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1584 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1585 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1586 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1588 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1589 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1590 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1591 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1593 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1595 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1599 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1600 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1601 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1602 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1603 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1605 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1606 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1607 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1608 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1610 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1611 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1612 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1613 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1614 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1615 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1616 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1617 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1618 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1619 offtopic stuff, too.
1620 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1621 script should start it, closes: #60979
1622 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1623 "should", closes: #170019
1624 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1625 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1626 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1627 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1628 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1629 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1630 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1631 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1634 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1636 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1640 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1641 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1642 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1643 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1644 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1645 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1646 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1647 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1649 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1650 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1651 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1652 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1653 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1654 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1655 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1656 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1657 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1659 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1660 file, closes: Bug#65764
1662 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1664 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1667 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1668 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1669 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1670 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1671 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1672 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1673 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1674 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1675 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1676 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1677 details. closes: Bug#133030
1678 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1679 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1680 parts of Bug#161455.
1682 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1684 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1687 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1688 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1689 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1690 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1691 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1692 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1693 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1694 not. closes: Bug#139820
1695 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1696 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1697 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1698 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1699 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1700 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1701 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1702 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1703 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1704 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1706 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1708 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1709 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1710 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1711 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1712 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1713 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1714 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1715 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1716 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1717 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1718 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1719 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1720 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1721 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1722 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1723 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1724 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1725 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1726 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1727 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1729 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1730 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1731 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1732 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1733 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1734 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1735 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1737 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1738 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1739 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1740 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1741 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1742 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1743 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1744 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1745 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1747 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1749 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1752 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1753 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1754 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1755 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1756 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1757 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1758 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1759 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1760 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1761 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1762 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1763 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1764 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1765 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1766 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1767 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1768 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1769 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1770 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1771 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1772 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1773 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1775 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1777 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1780 medium, high, emergency.
1781 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1782 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1783 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1784 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1785 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1788 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1789 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1790 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1792 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1793 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1794 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1795 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1796 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1797 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1798 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1801 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1803 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1806 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1807 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1808 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1810 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1811 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1812 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1813 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1814 debian/rules to do this
1815 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1816 patches are incorporated upstream
1817 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1818 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1819 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1820 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1821 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1822 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1824 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1825 system closes: Bug#91249
1826 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1827 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1828 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1829 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1830 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1831 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1832 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1833 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1834 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1835 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1836 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1837 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1838 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1840 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1842 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1845 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1846 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1847 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1849 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1850 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1851 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1853 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1856 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1858 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1861 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1862 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1863 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1864 package for the time being
1865 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1866 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1867 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1868 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1869 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1870 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1871 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1872 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1873 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1874 Build-Depends arch syntax
1875 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1877 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1878 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1880 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1881 from policy maintenance duties.
1882 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1883 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1885 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1887 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1891 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1893 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1896 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1897 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1898 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1899 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1900 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1901 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1902 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1903 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1904 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1905 minor version number for this
1906 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1907 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1908 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1909 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1910 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1911 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1912 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1913 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1914 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1916 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1918 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1921 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1922 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1923 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1924 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1926 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1928 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1929 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1930 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1931 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1932 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1933 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1934 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1935 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1936 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1937 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1938 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1939 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1940 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1941 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1942 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1943 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1946 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1948 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1951 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1953 * Document the Enhances relationship
1954 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1955 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1956 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1957 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1958 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1959 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1961 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1963 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1964 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1965 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1966 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1968 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1969 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1970 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1971 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1972 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1974 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1976 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1979 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1980 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1982 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1983 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1984 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1985 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1986 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1987 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1988 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1989 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1990 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1992 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1994 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1996 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1999 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
2000 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
2001 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
2002 policy. closes: Bug#64437
2003 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
2004 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
2005 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
2006 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
2007 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
2008 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
2009 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
2010 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
2011 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
2012 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
2013 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
2014 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
2015 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
2016 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
2017 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
2018 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
2019 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
2021 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
2022 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
2024 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
2026 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
2029 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
2030 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
2031 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
2032 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
2033 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
2034 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
2035 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
2036 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
2037 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
2038 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
2039 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
2040 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
2041 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
2042 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
2043 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
2044 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
2045 alternative closes: Bug#53755
2046 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
2047 list closes: Bug#53756
2048 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
2049 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
2050 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
2051 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
2052 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
2053 policy closes: Bug#53760
2054 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
2055 policy closes: Bug#53761
2056 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
2057 that use X closes: Bug#53762
2058 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
2059 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
2060 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
2061 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
2062 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
2063 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
2064 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
2065 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
2066 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
2068 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
2069 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
2070 to install with older fileutils.
2071 * Installed FHS version 2.1
2072 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
2073 * Added FHS details to copyright file
2074 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
2076 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
2077 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
2079 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
2081 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
2084 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
2086 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
2088 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
2091 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
2093 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
2096 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2098 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
2099 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
2101 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
2103 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
2105 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2107 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
2108 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
2110 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
2112 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
2115 #45561, #42447, #48570)
2116 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
2117 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
2118 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
2119 directoried (closes: #41547)
2120 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
2121 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
2122 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
2123 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
2124 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
2125 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
2126 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
2127 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
2128 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
2129 package criteria (closes: #45318)
2130 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
2132 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
2133 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
2134 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
2135 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
2136 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
2137 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
2138 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
2140 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
2141 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
2142 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
2143 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
2145 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
2147 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
2149 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
2150 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
2152 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
2154 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2156 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
2157 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
2159 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
2161 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2163 * A few typos and omissions corrected
2164 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
2166 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
2167 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
2168 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
2169 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
2170 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
2171 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
2172 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
2173 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
2174 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
2175 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
2176 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
2177 this closes: Bug#38612
2178 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
2179 before. closes: Bug#40864
2181 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2183 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2186 officially uploaded.
2187 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2189 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2190 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2191 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2193 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2194 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2195 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2196 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2197 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2198 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2200 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2201 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2202 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2204 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2206 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2207 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2208 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2209 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2210 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2212 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2214 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2216 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2217 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2218 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2219 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2220 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2221 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2222 there). closes: Bug#34233
2223 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2224 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2225 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2226 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2227 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2229 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2231 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2233 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2234 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2235 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2236 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2239 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2240 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2241 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2242 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2243 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2246 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2247 number. closes: BUG#25911
2249 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2250 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2251 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2252 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2253 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2254 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2256 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2257 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2258 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2261 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2262 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2263 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2265 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2266 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2267 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2268 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2270 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2271 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2272 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2274 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2276 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2277 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2278 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2279 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2280 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2281 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2282 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2283 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2286 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2288 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2289 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2292 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2294 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2296 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2298 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2300 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2302 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2303 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2304 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2305 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2306 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2307 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2308 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2309 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2311 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2312 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2314 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2316 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2318 * non-maintainer release
2319 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2320 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2322 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2323 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2324 * no content changes
2325 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2327 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2329 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2333 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2335 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2337 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2339 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2340 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2341 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2343 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2344 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2346 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2347 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2348 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2349 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2351 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2352 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2353 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2354 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2355 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2356 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2357 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2359 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2360 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2361 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2364 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2365 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2366 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2368 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2369 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2370 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2372 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2373 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2375 * New version numbering scheme:
2377 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2378 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2379 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2382 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2383 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2384 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2385 differ between the manuals.
2387 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2388 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2389 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2390 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2392 * Packaging changes:
2394 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2395 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2397 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2399 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2401 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2403 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2405 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2406 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2407 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2409 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2410 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2413 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2414 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2415 file extension as the referenced file
2417 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2418 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2420 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2421 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2422 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2423 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2426 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2427 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2428 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2430 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2431 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2432 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2433 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2436 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2437 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2440 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2441 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2442 reasonable default configuration
2444 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2445 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2446 by all news servers and clients
2448 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2449 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2450 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2451 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2452 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2454 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2455 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2458 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2460 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2461 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2463 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2466 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2467 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2469 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2470 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2472 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2474 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2476 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2478 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2479 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2480 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2481 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2483 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2485 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2486 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2487 * Don't use debstd anymore
2489 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2491 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2493 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2494 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2495 contrib/non-free policy
2496 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2497 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2498 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2499 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2500 - new section about `Daemons'
2501 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2502 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2503 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2504 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2505 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2506 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2507 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2508 * SGML source code included in package
2509 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2511 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2513 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2515 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2516 - completely reworked structure
2517 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2518 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2519 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2520 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2521 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2522 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2523 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2524 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2525 - mention "orphaned packages"
2526 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2527 distributions' policy
2528 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2529 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2530 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2531 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2532 - added section about arch spec strings
2533 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2534 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2535 - added section about "menus"
2536 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2537 the new documentation policy soon
2538 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2539 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2541 - added section about editors and pagers
2542 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2543 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2544 - added section about device files
2545 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2546 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2547 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2549 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2550 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2551 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2552 - Added new section about obsolete names
2553 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2554 * Fixed package's description
2556 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2558 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2560 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2562 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2564 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2566 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2567 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2568 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2569 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2571 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2573 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2575 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2576 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2577 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2579 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2580 and upload it "byhand" too.
2582 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2584 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2588 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2589 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2590 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2591 functionality must not have the same name.
2592 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2593 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2594 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2595 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2596 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2597 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2598 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2600 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2601 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2602 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2603 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2604 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2605 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2606 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2607 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2610 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2612 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2614 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2616 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2617 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2618 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2619 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2620 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2623 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2625 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2627 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2629 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2630 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2631 description of deb file format.
2632 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2633 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2635 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2637 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2638 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2640 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2642 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2644 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2645 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2646 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2647 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2648 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2649 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2650 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2651 packages in section on Procedure
2652 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2653 a package maintainer
2654 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2655 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2656 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2658 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2659 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2660 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2661 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2662 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2663 on various shlib files
2664 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2665 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2666 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2668 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2670 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2672 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2673 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2674 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2676 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2677 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2678 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2679 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2680 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2682 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2684 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2686 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2688 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2690 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2691 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2692 compatibility go in contrib.
2694 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2695 instructions in policy manual.
2696 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2699 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2701 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2703 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2704 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2705 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2706 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2708 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2709 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2712 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2714 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2716 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2717 * More detail about changelog format names.
2719 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2720 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2724 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2726 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2728 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2730 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2732 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2734 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2736 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2738 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2739 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2740 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2742 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2744 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2746 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2748 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2750 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2754 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100