1 debian-policy (3.9.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Policy: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
4 * Policy: Symbolic links must not traverse above the root directory.
5 Wording: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
7 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
8 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
10 * Policy: [9.2.2] document 32-bit UIDs ranges.
11 Wording: Matthew Vernon <matthew@debian.org>
12 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
13 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
14 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
16 * Policy: [5.1] empty field values in control files are only permitted in
17 the debian/control file of a source package.
18 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
19 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
20 Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>
22 * Policy: [4.9] debian/rules: required targets must not attempt network access.
23 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
24 Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>
25 Seconded: Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org>
28 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Sun, 08 Feb 2015 19:22:01 +0100
30 debian-policy (3.9.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
32 * Fix FTBFS with emacs 24.4. Thanks to David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
33 for the help. Closes: #769219
35 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Mon, 17 Nov 2014 11:55:55 +0100
37 debian-policy (3.9.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
40 * upgrading-checklist.sgml: remove spurious 'details in' leftover from
41 the HTML transition. Closes: #740100. Thanks Jakub Wilk.
43 - Build-Depends emacs-nox|emacs instead of emacs23. Closes: #753999
44 Thanks Gabriele Giacone and Rob Browning.
45 * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
46 * Policy: [11.5.1] Web servers: Fix use of metasyntactic variables and
47 applications Closes: #737730. Thanks Olivier Berger.
48 * Policy: [5.6.21] Files: Fix typo "by" -> be. Closes: #753353.
49 Thanks Benedikt Wildenhain.
50 * Policy: Remove reference to DEHS (dead service)
51 Wording: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
52 Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
53 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
55 * Policy: Relax /usr/share FHS requirement for directories with mixed content.
56 Wording: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
57 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
58 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
59 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
60 Seconded: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>
62 * Perl Policy: @INC has /usr/lib/perl/5.18, not /usr/lib/perl/5.18.2
63 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
64 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
65 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
67 * Perl Policy: Explain %Config earlier
68 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
69 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
70 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
72 * Perl Policy: @INC changes for multiarch
73 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
74 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
75 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
77 * Perl Policy: Packages using Perl vendorarch directory need a perlapi-*
79 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
80 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
81 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
82 Seconded: Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>
84 * Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch headers directories
85 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
86 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
87 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
89 * Policy: Discourage statically linked binaries
90 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
91 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
92 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
94 * Policy: Clarify whose signature should go in debian/changelog (4.4)
95 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
96 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
97 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
99 * Policy: Change default web document root to /var/www/html
100 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
101 Seconded: Arno Töll <arno@debian.org>
102 Seconded: Matthias Urlichs <matthias@urlichs.de>
104 * virtual-package-names-list: Update java runtime list
105 Wording: Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>
106 Seconded: Tony Mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
107 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
109 * virtual-package-names-list: Add httpd-wsgi
110 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
111 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
112 Seconded: Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org>
115 * Policy: Drop FHS requirement that /usr/local/lib<qual> exist when /lib<qual>
116 or /usr/lib<qual> does.
117 Wording: Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>
118 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
119 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
120 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
123 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 17 Sep 2014 20:03:20 +0200
125 debian-policy (3.9.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
127 * Policy: Document the Package-List field.
128 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
129 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
130 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
132 * Policy: DM-Upload-Allowed is now obsolete
133 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
134 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
135 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
136 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
138 * Policy: Checksums-{Sha1,Sha256} are now mandatory
139 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
140 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
141 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
143 * Policy: Requirements for udebs are not well documented yet
144 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
145 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
146 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
147 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
148 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
150 * Policy: install-info is run by a dpkg trigger.
151 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
152 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
153 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
155 * Policy: Stop recommending to serve HTML documents from /usr/share/doc.
156 Wording: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>
157 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
158 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
160 * Policy: File names encoded in UTF-8. ASCII preferred and mandatory in PATH.
161 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
162 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
163 Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
165 * Policy: Document the Dgit field for Debian Source Control files.
166 Wording: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
167 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
168 Seconded: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
169 Seconded: Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox@debian.org>
171 * Policy: Remove the exception to the FHS for the /selinux directory.
172 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
173 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
174 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
176 * Policy: on upgrades, recommend removing obsolete unchanged conf. files.
177 Wording: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
178 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
179 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
181 * Policy: Control data fields must not start with a hyphen character.
182 Wording: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
183 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
184 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
186 * debconf_spec: Document the 'escape' capability.
187 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
188 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
189 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
191 * virtual-package-names-list: removed mp3-decoder and mp3-encoder.
192 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
193 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
194 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
196 * Clean outdated mentions of dpkg commands in appendix. Thanks, Guillem Jover
197 * Remove outdated mention of dselect documentation.
198 Closes: #700574. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
199 * Update dak reference from old katie name.
200 Closes: #700536. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
201 * Fix typo in 8.6.4. Thanks, Raúl Benencia. (Closes: #691352)
202 * Fix typo in 8.6.4.1. Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>.
203 * Added a warning in appendix G about diverting conffiles.
204 Closes: #703022. Thanks, Torsten Jerzembeck.
205 * List build-arch and build-indep with the other required targets in 4.9.
206 Closes: #704657. Thanks, Philipp Hahn.
207 * Replaced non-standard names of dpkg states by normalised ones.
209 * Clarify what is meant by "compressed" in section 10.5. (Closes: #676784)
210 * Packaging: use the VCS URLs proposed by Lintian.
211 * Packaging: normalised debian/control with the tool "config-model-edit".
212 * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
214 -- Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> Mon, 28 Oct 2013 09:40:48 +0900
216 debian-policy (3.9.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
218 * build-arch and build-indep are now mandatory targets in debian/rules,
219 implementing the Technical Committee ruling in #629385. Wording
220 review by Jonathan Nieder, Jakub Wilk, and Roger Leigh.
222 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding tasks.
223 Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #670429)
224 * Policy: Copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8
225 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
226 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
227 Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
228 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
230 * Policy: Prohibit deprecated < and > relations
231 Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
232 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
233 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
235 * Policy: Document the Built-Using field
236 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
237 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
238 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
240 * Policy: Document the Vcs-* fields
241 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
242 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
243 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
244 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
245 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
247 * Policy: Document restrictions on the use of /run for wheezy
248 Wording: Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
249 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
250 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
252 * Policy: Rewrite shared library dependency policy to document symbols
253 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
254 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
255 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
256 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
258 * Policy: Document generic and upstart-specific init system requirements
259 Wording: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
260 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
261 Seconded: Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
263 * Policy: Rely on triggers instead of calling update-mime
264 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
265 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
266 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
269 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:35:36 -0700
271 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
273 * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source
274 package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)
275 * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.
276 Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)
277 and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and
279 * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking
280 whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending
281 dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)
282 * Remove the ambiguous word "installed" when requiring that the location
283 of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)
284 * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not
285 contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)
286 * Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided
287 (currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist
288 or perform the equivalent actions. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some
289 of the wording. (Closes: #601839)
290 * Clearly state that "yes" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed
291 and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)
292 * Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to
293 reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam
294 Morris. (Closes: #658009)
295 * Fix the legal notice in copyright-format to not refer to a nonexistent
297 * Embed the Debian Policy version and build date in the debconf
298 specification and the copyright-format document. We'll make
299 non-normative changes without updating other version numbers, and it's
300 good to know which version one is looking at.
301 * Fix some whitespace issues in the debconf specification articleinfo.
302 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
303 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
304 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
305 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
306 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
307 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
309 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
310 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
311 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
312 * Expand package long description to include all documents.
313 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
315 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
316 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
317 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
319 * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0, and in the process
320 add the license information for the documents other than Policy itself
321 and the FHS. Note the implication of the GPL source code requirement
322 for distributing generated versions of the Policy documents.
324 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:02:12 -0800
326 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
329 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
330 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
331 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
332 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
333 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
334 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
335 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
336 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
337 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
338 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
339 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
340 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
341 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
342 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
344 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
345 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
346 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
347 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
348 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
350 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
351 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
352 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
353 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
354 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
355 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
357 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
358 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
359 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
360 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
362 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
363 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
364 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
365 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
366 Closes: #620870, #532120
367 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
368 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
369 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
370 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
371 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
373 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
374 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
375 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
376 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
377 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
379 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
380 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
381 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
382 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
383 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
385 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
386 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
387 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
388 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
389 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
390 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
391 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
392 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
393 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
394 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
395 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
396 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
397 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
398 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
399 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
400 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
402 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
404 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
405 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
406 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
407 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
408 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
409 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
410 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
411 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
412 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
413 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
416 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
418 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
419 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
420 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
421 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
422 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
423 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
424 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
426 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
427 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
429 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
430 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
431 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
432 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
433 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
435 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
437 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
438 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
439 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
441 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
442 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
443 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
444 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
446 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
447 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
448 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
450 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
451 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
452 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
453 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
454 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
455 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
457 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
458 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
459 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
460 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
462 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
463 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
464 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
465 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
466 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
468 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
469 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
470 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
471 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
472 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
474 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
475 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
476 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
477 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
479 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
480 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
481 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
482 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
485 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
487 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
489 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
490 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
491 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
492 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
493 Closes: #459868, #581011
494 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
495 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
496 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
497 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
499 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
500 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
501 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
502 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
504 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
505 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
506 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
507 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
509 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
510 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
511 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
512 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
514 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
515 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
516 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
517 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
518 Closes: #501930, #593909
519 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
520 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
521 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
522 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
524 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
525 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
526 machine. (Closes: #591857)
527 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
528 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
529 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
530 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
531 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
532 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
533 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
534 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
535 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
536 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
538 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
539 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
540 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
541 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
542 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
543 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
544 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
545 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
546 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
547 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
548 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
549 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
550 than the version in oldstable.
551 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
552 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
553 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
554 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
555 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
556 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
557 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
558 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
559 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
560 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
561 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
562 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
563 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
564 package. (Closes: #609160)
566 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
568 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
570 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
571 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
572 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
573 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
574 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
576 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
577 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
578 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
579 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
581 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
582 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
583 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
584 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
586 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
587 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
588 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
589 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
590 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
591 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
592 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
593 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
594 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
596 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
597 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
598 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
599 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
601 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
602 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
603 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
604 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
606 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
607 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
608 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
609 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
611 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
612 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
613 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
614 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
616 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
617 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
618 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
619 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
620 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
622 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
623 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
624 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
625 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
626 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
628 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
629 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
630 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
631 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
633 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
634 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
635 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
636 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
638 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
639 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
640 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
641 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
643 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
644 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
645 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
646 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
648 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
649 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
650 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
651 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
653 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
654 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
655 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
656 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
658 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
660 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
661 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
662 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
663 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
664 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
665 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
666 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
667 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
668 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
670 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
671 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
672 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
673 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
674 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
675 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
677 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
679 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
682 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
685 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
688 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
689 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
690 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
691 and distribution license' (three times).
692 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
693 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
694 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
695 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
696 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
698 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
700 Proposed by Santiago Vila
701 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
702 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
703 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
704 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
708 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
709 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
710 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
711 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
713 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
714 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
715 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
716 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
717 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
718 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
720 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
721 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
722 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
723 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
725 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
726 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
727 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
728 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
729 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
731 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
732 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
733 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
734 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
735 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
737 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
738 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
739 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
740 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
741 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
743 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
744 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
745 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
746 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
748 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
749 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
750 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
751 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
752 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
754 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
755 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
756 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
757 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
759 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
760 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
761 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
762 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
764 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
765 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
766 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
767 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
768 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
770 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
771 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
772 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
773 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
775 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
776 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
777 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
778 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
779 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
781 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
782 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
783 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
784 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
786 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
787 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
788 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
789 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
790 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
791 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
792 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
793 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
794 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
795 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
796 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
797 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
798 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
799 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
800 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
801 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
802 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
803 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
804 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
805 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
806 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
807 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
808 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
809 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
810 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
811 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
812 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
813 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
814 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
815 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
816 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
817 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
819 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
821 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
823 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
826 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
827 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
829 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
830 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
834 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
837 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
838 Wording: Steve Langasek.
839 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
840 Seconded: Julien Cristau
841 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
844 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
845 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
846 Seconded: Russ Allbery
847 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
850 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
851 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
852 Seconded: Russ Allbery
854 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
855 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
856 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
857 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
858 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
859 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
860 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
861 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
862 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
864 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
865 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
866 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
867 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
868 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
869 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
870 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
871 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
872 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
873 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
874 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
875 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
876 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
877 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
878 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
879 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
881 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
882 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
883 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
884 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
885 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
887 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
890 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
891 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
892 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
893 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
894 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
895 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
898 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
900 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
902 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
903 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
904 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
905 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
907 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
908 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
909 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
910 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
912 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
913 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
914 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
915 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
917 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
918 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
919 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
920 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
921 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
922 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
924 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
925 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
926 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
927 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
928 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
930 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
931 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
932 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
933 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
935 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
936 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
937 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
938 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
940 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
941 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
942 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
943 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
945 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
946 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
947 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
948 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
950 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
951 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
952 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
953 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
955 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
956 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
957 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
958 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
959 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
960 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
961 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
962 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
963 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
964 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
965 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
966 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
967 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
968 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
969 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
971 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
972 Source field descriptions.
973 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
974 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
975 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
976 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
977 description says otherwise.
979 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
981 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
984 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
985 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
986 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
987 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
988 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
989 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
991 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
992 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
993 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
994 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
996 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
997 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
998 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
999 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
1001 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
1002 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1003 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1004 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
1006 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
1007 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
1008 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
1009 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
1013 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
1014 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
1015 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
1016 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
1017 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
1019 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
1020 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
1021 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1022 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1024 * Add myself to Uploaders.
1027 * Add myself to Uploaders.
1028 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
1030 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
1031 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
1032 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
1034 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
1036 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
1039 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
1040 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1041 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1043 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
1044 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1045 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
1046 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1048 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
1049 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1050 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1051 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1053 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
1054 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1055 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1056 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1058 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
1059 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1060 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1061 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1063 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
1064 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1065 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1066 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1068 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
1069 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1070 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
1071 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1073 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
1074 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1075 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1076 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
1078 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
1079 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
1080 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1081 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
1083 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
1084 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
1085 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1086 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
1088 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
1089 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1090 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1091 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
1092 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1094 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
1095 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
1096 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
1097 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
1098 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
1099 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
1100 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
1101 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
1102 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
1103 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
1104 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
1105 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
1106 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
1107 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
1108 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
1109 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
1110 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
1111 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
1112 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
1113 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
1114 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
1115 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
1116 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
1117 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
1118 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
1119 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
1120 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
1121 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
1122 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
1123 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
1125 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
1126 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
1127 links was completed long ago.
1128 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
1130 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
1132 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1134 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
1135 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
1137 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
1139 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1141 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
1142 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
1143 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
1144 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
1145 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
1146 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
1147 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
1148 Millan (Closes: #209008).
1149 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
1150 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
1152 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
1154 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
1156 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
1157 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
1158 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
1159 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
1160 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
1161 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
1162 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
1164 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
1165 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
1166 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
1167 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
1169 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
1170 Küster (Closes: #403391).
1171 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
1172 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
1173 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
1174 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
1175 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
1176 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1177 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1178 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
1179 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1180 Closes: #186700, #458910
1181 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
1182 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1183 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1185 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
1186 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
1187 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
1188 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
1189 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
1190 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
1191 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
1192 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
1194 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
1195 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
1197 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
1198 * Add an md5sums control file.
1199 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
1200 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
1201 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
1202 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
1203 currently part of policy.
1204 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
1205 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
1206 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
1209 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
1211 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
1214 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1215 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
1216 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
1217 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
1218 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
1219 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
1220 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
1221 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
1222 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
1223 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
1224 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
1225 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
1226 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
1227 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
1228 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
1230 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
1232 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
1233 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
1234 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
1236 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
1237 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
1238 list?" (Closes: #412634).
1239 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
1240 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
1241 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
1242 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
1243 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
1244 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
1245 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
1246 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
1247 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
1248 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
1249 debconf specification.
1250 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
1251 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
1253 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
1255 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1257 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
1258 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
1259 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
1260 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
1261 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
1263 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
1265 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
1266 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
1267 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
1268 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
1269 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1271 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
1272 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
1273 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
1274 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
1275 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
1276 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
1277 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
1278 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
1279 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
1280 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
1281 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
1282 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
1283 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
1284 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
1285 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
1286 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1288 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1290 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
1291 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
1292 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1293 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
1294 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
1295 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
1296 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
1297 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1299 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1301 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1304 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1305 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1306 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1307 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1308 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1309 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1311 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1312 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1313 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1314 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1315 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1316 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1317 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1318 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1319 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1320 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1322 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1323 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1324 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1325 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1326 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1327 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1329 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1331 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1334 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1335 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1336 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1338 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1339 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1341 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1343 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1346 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1347 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1348 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1349 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1350 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1351 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1352 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1353 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1354 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1356 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1357 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1358 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1359 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1360 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1361 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1362 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1363 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1364 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1365 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1366 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1369 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1371 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1374 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1375 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1376 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1377 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1378 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1379 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1380 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1381 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1382 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1383 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1384 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1385 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1386 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1387 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1388 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1389 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1390 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1391 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1392 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1393 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1394 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1395 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1396 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1397 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1398 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1399 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1400 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1402 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1403 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1404 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1405 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1406 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1407 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1408 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1409 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1410 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1411 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1412 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1413 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1414 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1415 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1416 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1417 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1419 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1420 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1422 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1423 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1424 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1425 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1426 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1427 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1428 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1429 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1430 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1431 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1432 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1434 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1436 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1440 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1441 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1442 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1443 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1444 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1445 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1446 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1447 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1448 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1449 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1450 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1451 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1453 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1454 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1455 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1456 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1457 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1458 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1459 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1460 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1461 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1462 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1463 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1464 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1465 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1466 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1467 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1468 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1469 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1470 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1471 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1474 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1476 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1479 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1480 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1481 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1483 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1484 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1485 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1486 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1488 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1490 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1493 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1494 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1495 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1496 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1497 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1498 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1499 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1500 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1501 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1502 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1504 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1505 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1506 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1508 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1509 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1510 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1511 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1512 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1513 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1514 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1516 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1517 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1518 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1519 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1521 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1522 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1523 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1524 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1525 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1526 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1527 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1528 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1530 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1531 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1532 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1533 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1534 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1535 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1536 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1537 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1538 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1539 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1540 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1541 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1542 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1543 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1544 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1545 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1546 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1548 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1550 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1554 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1555 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1556 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1557 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1558 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1559 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1560 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1561 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1563 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1564 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1565 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1566 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1567 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1568 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1569 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1570 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1571 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1572 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1573 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1574 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1575 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1576 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1577 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1578 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1579 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1581 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1582 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1583 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1586 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1587 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1588 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1590 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1591 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1592 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1593 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1594 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1595 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1597 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1598 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1600 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1601 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1602 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1603 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1604 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1605 Closes: #185943, #237049
1607 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1609 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1615 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1616 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1617 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1618 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1619 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1620 running. closes: Bug#187250
1621 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1622 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1623 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1624 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1625 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1626 user closes: Bug#176506
1628 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1630 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1634 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1635 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1636 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1637 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1638 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1639 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1640 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1641 deb-building toolchain.
1642 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1643 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1644 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1645 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1646 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1647 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1648 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1649 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1650 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1651 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1652 sections about changelog files.
1654 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1655 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1656 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1657 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1658 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1659 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1661 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1662 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1663 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1664 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1665 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1666 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1667 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1668 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1669 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1670 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1671 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1672 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1673 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1674 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1675 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1676 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1677 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1678 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1679 for the restructuring
1681 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1683 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1688 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1689 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1690 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1691 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1692 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1693 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1695 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1696 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1697 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1698 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1699 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1700 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1701 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1703 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1704 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1705 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1706 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1708 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1710 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1714 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1715 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1716 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1717 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1718 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1720 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1721 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1722 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1723 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1725 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1726 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1727 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1728 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1729 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1730 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1731 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1732 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1733 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1734 offtopic stuff, too.
1735 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1736 script should start it, closes: #60979
1737 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1738 "should", closes: #170019
1739 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1740 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1741 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1742 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1743 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1744 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1745 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1746 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1749 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1751 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1755 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1756 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1757 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1758 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1759 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1760 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1761 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1762 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1764 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1765 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1766 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1767 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1768 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1769 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1770 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1771 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1772 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1774 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1775 file, closes: Bug#65764
1777 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1779 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1782 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1783 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1784 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1785 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1786 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1787 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1788 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1789 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1790 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1791 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1792 details. closes: Bug#133030
1793 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1794 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1795 parts of Bug#161455.
1797 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1799 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1802 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1803 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1804 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1805 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1806 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1807 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1808 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1809 not. closes: Bug#139820
1810 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1811 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1812 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1813 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1814 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1815 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1816 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1817 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1818 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1819 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1821 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1823 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1824 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1825 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1826 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1827 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1828 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1829 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1830 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1831 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1832 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1833 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1834 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1835 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1836 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1837 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1838 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1839 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1840 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1841 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1842 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1844 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1845 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1846 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1847 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1848 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1849 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1850 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1852 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1853 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1854 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1855 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1856 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1857 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1858 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1859 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1860 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1862 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1864 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1867 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1868 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1869 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1870 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1871 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1872 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1873 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1874 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1875 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1876 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1877 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1878 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1879 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1880 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1881 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1882 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1883 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1884 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1885 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1886 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1887 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1888 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1890 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1892 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1895 medium, high, emergency.
1896 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1897 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1898 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1899 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1900 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1903 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1904 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1905 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1907 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1908 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1909 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1910 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1911 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1912 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1913 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1916 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1918 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1921 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1922 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1923 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1925 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1926 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1927 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1928 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1929 debian/rules to do this
1930 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1931 patches are incorporated upstream
1932 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1933 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1934 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1935 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1936 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1937 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1939 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1940 system closes: Bug#91249
1941 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1942 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1943 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1944 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1945 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1946 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1947 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1948 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1949 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1950 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1951 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1952 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1953 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1955 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1957 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1960 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1961 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1962 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1964 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1965 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1966 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1968 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1971 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1973 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1976 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1977 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1978 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1979 package for the time being
1980 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1981 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1982 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1983 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1984 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1985 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1986 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1987 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1988 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1989 Build-Depends arch syntax
1990 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1992 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1993 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1995 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1996 from policy maintenance duties.
1997 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1998 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
2000 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
2002 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
2006 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
2008 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
2011 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
2012 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
2013 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
2014 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
2015 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
2016 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
2017 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
2018 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
2019 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
2020 minor version number for this
2021 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
2022 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
2023 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
2024 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
2025 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
2026 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
2027 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
2028 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
2029 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
2031 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
2033 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
2036 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
2037 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
2038 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
2039 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
2041 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
2043 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
2044 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
2045 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
2046 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
2047 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
2048 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
2049 xutils closes: Bug#82966
2050 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
2051 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
2052 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
2053 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
2054 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
2055 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
2056 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
2057 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
2058 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
2061 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
2063 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
2066 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
2068 * Document the Enhances relationship
2069 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
2070 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
2071 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
2072 policy. closes: Bug#53496
2073 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
2074 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
2076 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
2078 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
2079 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
2080 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
2081 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
2083 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
2084 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
2085 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
2086 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
2087 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
2089 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
2091 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
2094 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
2095 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
2097 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
2098 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
2099 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
2100 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
2101 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
2102 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
2103 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
2104 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
2105 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
2107 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
2109 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
2111 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
2114 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
2115 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
2116 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
2117 policy. closes: Bug#64437
2118 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
2119 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
2120 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
2121 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
2122 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
2123 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
2124 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
2125 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
2126 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
2127 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
2128 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
2129 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
2130 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
2131 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
2132 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
2133 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
2134 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
2136 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
2137 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
2139 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
2141 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
2144 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
2145 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
2146 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
2147 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
2148 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
2149 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
2150 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
2151 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
2152 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
2153 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
2154 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
2155 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
2156 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
2157 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
2158 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
2159 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
2160 alternative closes: Bug#53755
2161 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
2162 list closes: Bug#53756
2163 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
2164 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
2165 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
2166 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
2167 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
2168 policy closes: Bug#53760
2169 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
2170 policy closes: Bug#53761
2171 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
2172 that use X closes: Bug#53762
2173 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
2174 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
2175 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
2176 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
2177 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
2178 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
2179 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
2180 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
2181 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
2183 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
2184 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
2185 to install with older fileutils.
2186 * Installed FHS version 2.1
2187 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
2188 * Added FHS details to copyright file
2189 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
2191 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
2192 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
2194 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
2196 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2198 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
2199 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
2201 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
2203 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
2206 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
2208 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
2211 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
2214 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
2216 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
2218 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
2220 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
2223 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
2225 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
2227 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2229 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
2230 #45561, #42447, #48570)
2231 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
2232 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
2233 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
2234 directoried (closes: #41547)
2235 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
2236 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
2237 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
2238 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
2239 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
2240 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
2241 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
2242 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
2243 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
2244 package criteria (closes: #45318)
2245 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
2247 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
2248 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
2249 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
2250 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
2251 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
2252 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
2253 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
2255 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
2256 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
2257 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
2258 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
2260 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
2262 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
2264 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
2265 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
2267 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
2269 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
2272 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
2274 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
2276 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2278 * A few typos and omissions corrected
2279 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
2281 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
2282 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
2283 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
2284 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
2285 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
2286 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
2287 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
2288 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
2289 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
2290 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
2291 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
2292 this closes: Bug#38612
2293 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
2294 before. closes: Bug#40864
2296 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2298 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2301 officially uploaded.
2302 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2304 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2305 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2306 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2308 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2309 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2310 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2311 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2312 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2313 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2315 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2316 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2317 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2319 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2321 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2322 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2323 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2324 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2325 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2327 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2329 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2331 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2332 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2333 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2334 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2335 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2336 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2337 there). closes: Bug#34233
2338 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2339 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2340 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2341 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2342 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2344 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2346 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2348 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2349 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2350 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2351 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2354 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2355 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2356 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2357 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2358 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2361 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2362 number. closes: BUG#25911
2364 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2365 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2366 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2367 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2368 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2369 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2371 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2372 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2373 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2376 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2377 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2378 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2380 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2381 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2382 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2383 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2385 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2386 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2387 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2389 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2391 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2392 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2393 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2394 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2395 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2396 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2397 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2398 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2401 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2403 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2404 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2407 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2409 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2411 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2413 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2415 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2418 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2419 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2420 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2421 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2422 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2423 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2424 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2426 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2427 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2429 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2431 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2433 * non-maintainer release
2434 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2435 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2437 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2438 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2439 * no content changes
2440 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2442 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2444 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2448 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2450 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2452 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2454 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2455 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2456 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2458 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2459 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2461 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2462 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2463 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2464 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2466 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2467 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2468 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2469 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2470 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2471 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2472 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2474 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2475 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2476 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2479 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2480 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2481 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2483 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2484 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2485 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2487 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2488 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2490 * New version numbering scheme:
2492 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2493 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2494 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2497 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2498 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2499 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2500 differ between the manuals.
2502 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2503 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2504 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2505 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2507 * Packaging changes:
2509 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2510 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2512 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2514 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2516 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2520 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2521 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2522 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2524 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2525 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2528 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2529 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2530 file extension as the referenced file
2532 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2533 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2535 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2536 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2537 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2538 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2541 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2542 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2543 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2545 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2546 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2547 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2548 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2551 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2552 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2555 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2556 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2557 reasonable default configuration
2559 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2560 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2561 by all news servers and clients
2563 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2564 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2565 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2566 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2567 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2569 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2570 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2573 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2575 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2576 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2578 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2581 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2582 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2584 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2585 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2587 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2589 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2591 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2593 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2594 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2595 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2596 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2598 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2600 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2601 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2602 * Don't use debstd anymore
2604 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2606 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2608 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2609 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2610 contrib/non-free policy
2611 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2612 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2613 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2614 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2615 - new section about `Daemons'
2616 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2617 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2618 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2619 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2620 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2621 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2622 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2623 * SGML source code included in package
2624 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2626 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2628 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2630 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2631 - completely reworked structure
2632 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2633 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2634 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2635 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2636 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2637 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2638 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2639 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2640 - mention "orphaned packages"
2641 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2642 distributions' policy
2643 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2644 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2645 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2646 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2647 - added section about arch spec strings
2648 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2649 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2650 - added section about "menus"
2651 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2652 the new documentation policy soon
2653 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2654 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2656 - added section about editors and pagers
2657 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2658 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2659 - added section about device files
2660 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2661 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2662 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2664 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2665 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2666 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2667 - Added new section about obsolete names
2668 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2669 * Fixed package's description
2671 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2673 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2675 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2677 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2679 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2681 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2682 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2683 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2684 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2686 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2688 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2690 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2691 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2692 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2694 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2695 and upload it "byhand" too.
2697 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2699 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2702 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2703 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2704 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2705 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2706 functionality must not have the same name.
2707 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2708 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2709 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2710 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2711 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2712 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2713 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2715 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2716 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2717 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2718 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2719 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2720 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2721 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2722 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2725 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2727 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2729 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2731 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2732 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2733 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2734 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2735 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2738 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2740 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2742 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2744 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2745 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2746 description of deb file format.
2747 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2748 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2750 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2752 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2753 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2755 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2757 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2759 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2760 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2761 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2762 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2763 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2764 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2765 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2766 packages in section on Procedure
2767 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2768 a package maintainer
2769 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2770 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2771 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2773 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2774 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2775 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2776 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2777 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2778 on various shlib files
2779 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2780 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2781 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2783 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2785 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2787 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2788 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2789 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2791 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2792 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2793 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2794 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2795 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2797 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2799 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2801 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2803 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2805 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2806 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2807 compatibility go in contrib.
2809 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2810 instructions in policy manual.
2811 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2814 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2816 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2818 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2819 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2820 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2821 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2823 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2824 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2827 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2829 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2831 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2832 * More detail about changelog format names.
2834 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2835 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2839 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2841 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2843 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2845 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2847 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2849 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2851 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2853 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2854 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2855 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2857 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2859 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2861 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2863 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2865 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2869 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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