1 debian-policy (3.9.5.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Policy: Document the Package-List field.
4 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
5 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
8 * Policy: DM-Upload-Allowed is now obsolete
9 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
10 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
11 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
12 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
14 * Policy: Checksums-{Sha1,Sha256} are now mandatory
15 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
16 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
17 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
19 * Remove outdated mention of dselect documentation.
20 Closes: #700574. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
21 * Update dak reference from old katie name.
22 Closes: #700536. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
23 * Fix typo in 8.6.4. Thanks, Raúl Benencia. (Closes: #691352)
25 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:32:46 -0700
27 debian-policy (3.9.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
29 * build-arch and build-indep are now mandatory targets in debian/rules,
30 implementing the Technical Committee ruling in #629385. Wording
31 review by Jonathan Nieder, Jakub Wilk, and Roger Leigh.
33 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding tasks.
34 Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #670429)
35 * Policy: Copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8
36 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
37 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
38 Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
39 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
41 * Policy: Prohibit deprecated < and > relations
42 Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
43 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
44 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
46 * Policy: Document the Built-Using field
47 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
48 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
49 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
51 * Policy: Document the Vcs-* fields
52 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
53 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
54 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
55 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
56 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
58 * Policy: Document restrictions on the use of /run for wheezy
59 Wording: Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
60 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
61 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
63 * Policy: Rewrite shared library dependency policy to document symbols
64 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
65 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
66 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
67 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
69 * Policy: Document generic and upstart-specific init system requirements
70 Wording: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
71 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
72 Seconded: Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
74 * Policy: Rely on triggers instead of calling update-mime
75 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
76 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
77 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
80 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:35:36 -0700
82 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
84 * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source
85 package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)
86 * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.
87 Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)
88 and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and
90 * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking
91 whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending
92 dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)
93 * Remove the ambiguous word "installed" when requiring that the location
94 of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)
95 * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not
96 contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)
97 * Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided
98 (currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist
99 or perform the equivalent actions. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some
100 of the wording. (Closes: #601839)
101 * Clearly state that "yes" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed
102 and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)
103 * Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to
104 reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam
105 Morris. (Closes: #658009)
106 * Fix the legal notice in copyright-format to not refer to a nonexistent
108 * Embed the Debian Policy version and build date in the debconf
109 specification and the copyright-format document. We'll make
110 non-normative changes without updating other version numbers, and it's
111 good to know which version one is looking at.
112 * Fix some whitespace issues in the debconf specification articleinfo.
113 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
114 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
115 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
116 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
117 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
118 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
120 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
121 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
122 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
123 * Expand package long description to include all documents.
124 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
126 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
127 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
128 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
130 * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0, and in the process
131 add the license information for the documents other than Policy itself
132 and the FHS. Note the implication of the GPL source code requirement
133 for distributing generated versions of the Policy documents.
135 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:02:12 -0800
137 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
140 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
141 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
142 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
143 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
144 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
145 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
146 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
147 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
148 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
149 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
150 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
151 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
152 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
153 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
155 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
156 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
157 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
158 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
159 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
161 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
162 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
163 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
164 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
165 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
166 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
168 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
169 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
170 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
171 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
173 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
174 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
175 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
176 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
177 Closes: #620870, #532120
178 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
179 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
180 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
181 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
182 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
184 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
185 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
186 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
187 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
188 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
190 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
191 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
192 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
193 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
194 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
196 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
197 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
198 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
199 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
200 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
201 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
202 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
203 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
204 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
205 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
206 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
207 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
208 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
209 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
210 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
211 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
213 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
215 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
216 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
217 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
218 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
219 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
220 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
221 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
222 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
223 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
224 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
227 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
229 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
230 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
231 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
232 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
233 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
234 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
235 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
237 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
238 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
240 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
241 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
242 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
243 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
244 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
246 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
248 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
249 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
250 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
252 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
253 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
254 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
255 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
257 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
258 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
259 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
261 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
262 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
263 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
264 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
265 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
266 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
268 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
269 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
270 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
271 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
273 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
274 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
275 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
276 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
277 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
279 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
280 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
281 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
282 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
283 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
285 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
286 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
287 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
288 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
290 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
291 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
292 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
293 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
296 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
298 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
300 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
301 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
302 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
303 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
304 Closes: #459868, #581011
305 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
306 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
307 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
308 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
310 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
311 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
312 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
313 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
315 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
316 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
317 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
318 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
320 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
321 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
322 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
323 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
325 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
326 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
327 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
328 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
329 Closes: #501930, #593909
330 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
331 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
332 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
333 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
335 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
336 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
337 machine. (Closes: #591857)
338 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
339 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
340 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
341 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
342 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
343 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
344 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
345 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
346 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
347 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
349 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
350 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
351 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
352 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
353 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
354 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
355 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
356 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
357 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
358 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
359 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
360 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
361 than the version in oldstable.
362 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
363 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
364 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
365 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
366 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
367 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
368 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
369 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
370 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
371 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
372 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
373 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
374 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
375 package. (Closes: #609160)
377 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
379 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
381 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
382 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
383 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
384 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
385 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
387 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
388 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
389 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
390 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
392 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
393 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
394 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
395 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
397 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
398 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
399 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
400 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
401 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
402 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
403 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
404 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
405 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
407 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
408 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
409 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
410 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
412 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
413 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
414 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
415 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
417 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
418 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
419 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
420 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
422 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
423 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
424 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
425 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
427 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
428 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
429 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
430 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
431 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
433 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
434 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
435 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
436 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
437 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
439 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
440 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
441 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
442 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
444 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
445 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
446 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
447 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
449 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
450 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
451 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
452 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
454 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
455 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
456 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
457 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
459 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
460 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
461 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
462 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
464 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
465 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
466 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
467 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
469 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
471 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
472 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
473 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
474 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
475 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
476 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
477 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
478 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
479 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
481 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
482 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
483 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
484 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
485 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
486 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
488 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
490 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
493 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
496 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
499 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
500 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
501 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
502 and distribution license' (three times).
503 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
504 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
505 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
506 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
507 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
509 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
511 Proposed by Santiago Vila
512 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
513 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
514 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
515 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
519 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
520 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
521 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
522 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
524 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
525 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
526 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
527 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
528 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
529 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
531 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
532 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
533 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
534 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
536 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
537 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
538 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
539 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
540 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
542 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
543 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
544 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
545 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
546 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
548 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
549 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
550 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
551 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
552 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
554 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
555 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
556 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
557 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
559 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
560 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
561 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
562 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
563 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
565 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
566 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
567 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
568 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
570 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
571 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
572 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
573 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
575 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
576 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
577 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
578 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
579 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
581 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
582 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
583 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
584 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
586 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
587 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
588 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
589 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
590 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
592 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
593 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
594 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
595 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
597 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
598 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
599 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
600 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
601 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
602 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
603 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
604 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
605 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
606 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
607 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
608 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
609 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
610 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
611 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
612 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
613 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
614 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
615 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
616 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
617 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
618 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
619 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
620 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
621 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
622 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
623 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
624 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
625 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
626 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
627 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
628 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
630 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
632 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
634 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
637 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
638 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
640 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
641 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
645 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
648 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
649 Wording: Steve Langasek.
650 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
651 Seconded: Julien Cristau
652 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
655 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
656 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
657 Seconded: Russ Allbery
658 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
661 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
662 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
663 Seconded: Russ Allbery
665 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
666 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
667 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
668 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
669 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
670 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
671 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
672 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
673 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
675 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
676 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
677 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
678 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
679 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
680 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
681 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
682 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
683 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
684 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
685 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
686 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
687 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
688 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
689 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
690 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
692 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
693 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
694 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
695 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
696 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
698 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
701 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
702 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
703 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
704 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
705 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
706 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
709 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
711 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
713 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
714 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
715 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
716 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
718 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
719 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
720 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
721 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
723 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
724 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
725 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
726 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
728 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
729 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
730 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
731 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
732 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
733 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
735 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
736 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
737 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
738 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
739 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
741 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
742 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
743 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
744 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
746 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
747 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
748 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
749 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
751 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
752 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
753 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
754 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
756 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
757 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
758 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
759 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
761 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
762 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
763 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
764 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
766 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
767 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
768 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
769 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
770 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
771 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
772 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
773 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
774 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
775 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
776 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
777 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
778 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
779 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
780 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
782 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
783 Source field descriptions.
784 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
785 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
786 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
787 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
788 description says otherwise.
790 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
792 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
795 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
796 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
797 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
798 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
799 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
800 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
802 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
803 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
804 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
805 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
807 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
808 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
809 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
810 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
812 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
813 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
814 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
815 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
817 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
818 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
819 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
820 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
824 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
825 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
826 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
827 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
828 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
830 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
831 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
832 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
833 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
835 * Add myself to Uploaders.
838 * Add myself to Uploaders.
839 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
841 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
842 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
843 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
845 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
847 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
849 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
850 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
851 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
852 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
854 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
855 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
856 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
857 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
859 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
860 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
861 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
862 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
864 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
865 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
866 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
867 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
869 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
870 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
871 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
872 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
874 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
875 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
876 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
877 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
879 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
880 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
881 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
882 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
884 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
885 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
886 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
887 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
889 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
890 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
891 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
892 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
894 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
895 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
896 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
897 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
899 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
900 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
901 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
902 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
903 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
905 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
906 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
907 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
908 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
909 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
910 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
911 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
912 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
913 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
914 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
915 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
916 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
917 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
918 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
919 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
920 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
921 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
922 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
923 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
924 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
925 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
926 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
927 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
928 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
929 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
930 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
931 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
932 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
933 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
934 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
936 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
937 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
938 links was completed long ago.
939 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
941 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
943 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
945 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
946 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
948 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
950 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
952 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
953 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
954 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
955 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
956 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
957 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
958 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
959 Millan (Closes: #209008).
960 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
961 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
963 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
965 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
967 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
968 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
969 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
970 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
971 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
972 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
973 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
975 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
976 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
977 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
978 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
980 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
981 Küster (Closes: #403391).
982 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
983 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
984 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
985 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
986 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
987 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
988 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
989 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
990 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
991 Closes: #186700, #458910
992 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
993 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
994 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
996 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
997 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
998 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
999 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
1000 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
1001 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
1002 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
1003 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
1005 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
1006 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
1008 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
1009 * Add an md5sums control file.
1010 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
1011 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
1012 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
1013 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
1014 currently part of policy.
1015 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
1016 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
1017 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
1020 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
1022 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
1025 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1026 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
1027 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
1028 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
1029 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
1030 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
1031 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
1032 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
1033 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
1034 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
1035 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
1036 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
1037 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
1038 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
1039 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
1041 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
1043 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
1044 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
1045 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
1047 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
1048 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
1049 list?" (Closes: #412634).
1050 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
1051 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
1052 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
1053 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
1054 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
1055 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
1056 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
1057 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
1058 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
1059 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
1060 debconf specification.
1061 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
1062 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
1064 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
1066 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
1069 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
1070 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
1071 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
1072 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
1074 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
1076 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
1077 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
1078 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
1079 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
1080 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1082 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
1083 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
1084 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
1085 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
1086 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
1087 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
1088 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
1089 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
1090 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
1091 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
1092 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
1093 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
1094 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
1095 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
1096 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
1097 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1099 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1101 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
1102 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
1103 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1104 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
1105 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
1106 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
1107 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
1108 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1110 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1112 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1115 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1116 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1117 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1118 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1119 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1120 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1122 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1123 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1124 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1125 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1126 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1127 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1128 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1129 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1130 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1131 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1133 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1134 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1135 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1136 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1137 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1138 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1140 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1142 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1145 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1146 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1147 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1149 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1150 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1152 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1154 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1157 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1158 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1159 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1160 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1161 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1162 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1163 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1164 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1165 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1167 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1168 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1169 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1170 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1171 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1172 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1173 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1174 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1175 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1176 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1177 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1180 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1182 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1184 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1185 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1186 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1187 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1188 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1189 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1190 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1191 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1192 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1193 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1194 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1195 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1196 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1197 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1198 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1199 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1200 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1201 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1202 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1203 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1204 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1205 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1206 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1207 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1208 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1209 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1210 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1211 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1213 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1214 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1215 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1216 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1217 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1218 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1219 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1220 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1221 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1222 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1223 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1224 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1225 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1226 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1227 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1228 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1230 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1231 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1233 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1234 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1235 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1236 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1237 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1238 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1239 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1240 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1241 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1242 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1243 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1245 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1247 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1251 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1252 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1253 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1254 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1255 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1256 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1257 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1258 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1259 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1260 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1261 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1262 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1264 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1265 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1266 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1267 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1268 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1269 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1270 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1271 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1272 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1273 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1274 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1275 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1276 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1277 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1278 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1279 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1280 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1281 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1282 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1285 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1287 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1290 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1291 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1292 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1294 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1295 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1296 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1297 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1299 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1301 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1305 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1306 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1307 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1308 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1309 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1310 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1311 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1312 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1313 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1315 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1316 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1317 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1319 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1320 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1321 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1322 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1323 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1324 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1325 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1327 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1328 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1329 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1330 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1332 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1333 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1334 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1335 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1336 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1337 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1338 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1339 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1341 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1342 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1343 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1344 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1345 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1346 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1347 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1348 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1349 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1350 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1351 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1352 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1353 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1354 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1355 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1356 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1357 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1359 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1361 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1365 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1366 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1367 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1368 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1369 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1370 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1371 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1372 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1374 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1375 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1376 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1377 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1378 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1379 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1380 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1381 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1382 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1383 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1384 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1385 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1386 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1387 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1388 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1389 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1390 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1392 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1393 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1394 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1397 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1398 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1399 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1401 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1402 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1403 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1404 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1405 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1406 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1408 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1409 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1411 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1412 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1413 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1414 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1415 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1416 Closes: #185943, #237049
1418 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1420 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1426 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1427 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1428 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1429 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1430 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1431 running. closes: Bug#187250
1432 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1433 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1434 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1435 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1436 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1437 user closes: Bug#176506
1439 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1441 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1445 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1446 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1447 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1448 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1449 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1450 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1451 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1452 deb-building toolchain.
1453 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1454 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1455 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1456 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1457 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1458 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1459 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1460 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1461 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1462 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1463 sections about changelog files.
1465 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1466 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1467 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1468 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1469 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1470 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1472 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1473 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1474 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1475 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1476 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1477 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1478 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1479 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1480 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1481 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1482 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1483 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1484 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1485 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1486 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1487 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1488 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1489 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1490 for the restructuring
1492 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1494 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1499 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1500 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1501 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1502 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1503 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1504 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1506 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1507 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1508 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1509 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1510 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1511 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1512 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1514 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1515 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1516 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1517 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1519 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1521 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1525 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1526 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1527 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1528 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1529 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1531 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1532 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1533 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1534 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1536 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1537 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1538 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1539 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1540 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1541 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1542 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1543 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1544 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1545 offtopic stuff, too.
1546 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1547 script should start it, closes: #60979
1548 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1549 "should", closes: #170019
1550 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1551 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1552 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1553 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1554 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1555 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1556 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1557 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1560 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1562 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1566 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1567 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1568 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1569 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1570 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1571 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1572 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1573 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1575 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1576 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1577 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1578 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1579 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1580 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1581 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1582 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1583 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1585 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1586 file, closes: Bug#65764
1588 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1590 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1593 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1594 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1595 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1596 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1597 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1598 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1599 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1600 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1601 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1602 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1603 details. closes: Bug#133030
1604 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1605 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1606 parts of Bug#161455.
1608 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1610 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1613 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1614 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1615 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1616 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1617 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1618 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1619 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1620 not. closes: Bug#139820
1621 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1622 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1623 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1624 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1625 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1626 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1627 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1628 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1629 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1630 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1632 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1634 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1635 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1636 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1637 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1638 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1639 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1640 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1641 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1642 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1643 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1644 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1645 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1646 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1647 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1648 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1649 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1650 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1651 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1652 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1653 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1655 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1656 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1657 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1658 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1659 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1660 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1661 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1663 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1664 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1665 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1666 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1667 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1668 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1669 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1670 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1671 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1673 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1675 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1678 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1679 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1680 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1681 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1682 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1683 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1684 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1685 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1686 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1687 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1688 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1689 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1690 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1691 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1692 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1693 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1694 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1695 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1696 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1697 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1698 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1699 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1701 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1703 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1705 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1706 medium, high, emergency.
1707 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1708 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1709 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1710 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1711 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1714 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1715 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1716 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1718 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1719 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1720 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1721 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1722 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1723 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1724 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1727 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1729 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1732 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1733 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1734 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1736 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1737 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1738 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1739 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1740 debian/rules to do this
1741 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1742 patches are incorporated upstream
1743 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1744 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1745 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1746 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1747 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1748 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1750 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1751 system closes: Bug#91249
1752 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1753 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1754 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1755 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1756 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1757 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1758 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1759 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1760 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1761 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1762 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1763 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1764 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1766 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1768 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1770 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1771 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1772 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1773 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1775 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1776 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1777 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1779 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1782 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1784 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1787 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1788 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1789 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1790 package for the time being
1791 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1792 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1793 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1794 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1795 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1796 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1797 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1798 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1799 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1800 Build-Depends arch syntax
1801 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1803 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1804 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1806 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1807 from policy maintenance duties.
1808 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1809 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1811 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1813 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1817 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1819 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1822 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1823 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1824 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1825 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1826 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1827 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1828 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1829 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1830 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1831 minor version number for this
1832 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1833 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1834 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1835 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1836 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1837 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1838 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1839 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1840 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1842 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1844 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1847 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1848 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1849 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1850 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1852 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1854 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1855 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1856 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1857 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1858 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1859 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1860 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1861 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1862 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1863 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1864 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1865 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1866 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1867 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1868 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1869 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1872 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1874 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1877 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1879 * Document the Enhances relationship
1880 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1881 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1882 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1883 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1884 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1885 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1887 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1889 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1890 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1891 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1892 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1894 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1895 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1896 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1897 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1898 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1900 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1902 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1905 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1906 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1908 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1909 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1910 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1911 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1912 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1913 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1914 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1915 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1916 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1918 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1920 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1922 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1925 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1926 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1927 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1928 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1929 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1930 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1931 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1932 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1933 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1934 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1935 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1936 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1937 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1938 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1939 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1940 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1941 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1942 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1943 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1944 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1945 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1947 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1948 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1950 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1952 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1955 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1956 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1957 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1958 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1959 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1960 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1961 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1962 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1963 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1964 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1965 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1966 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1967 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1968 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1969 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1970 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1971 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1972 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1973 list closes: Bug#53756
1974 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1975 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1976 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1977 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1978 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1979 policy closes: Bug#53760
1980 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1981 policy closes: Bug#53761
1982 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1983 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1984 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1985 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1986 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1987 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1988 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1989 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1990 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1991 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1992 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1994 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1995 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1996 to install with older fileutils.
1997 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1998 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1999 * Added FHS details to copyright file
2000 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
2002 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
2003 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
2005 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
2007 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2009 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
2010 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
2012 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
2014 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
2017 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
2019 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
2022 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
2025 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
2027 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
2029 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
2031 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2033 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
2034 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
2036 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
2038 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2040 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
2041 #45561, #42447, #48570)
2042 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
2043 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
2044 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
2045 directoried (closes: #41547)
2046 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
2047 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
2048 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
2049 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
2050 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
2051 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
2052 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
2053 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
2054 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
2055 package criteria (closes: #45318)
2056 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
2058 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
2059 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
2060 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
2061 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
2062 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
2063 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
2064 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
2066 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
2067 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
2068 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
2069 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
2071 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
2073 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
2075 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
2076 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
2078 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
2080 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
2083 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
2085 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
2087 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * A few typos and omissions corrected
2090 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
2092 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
2093 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
2094 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
2095 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
2096 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
2097 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
2098 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
2099 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
2100 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
2101 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
2102 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
2103 this closes: Bug#38612
2104 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
2105 before. closes: Bug#40864
2107 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2109 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2112 officially uploaded.
2113 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2115 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2116 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2117 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2119 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2120 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2121 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2122 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2123 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2124 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2126 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2127 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2128 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2130 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2132 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2133 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2134 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2135 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2136 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2138 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2140 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2143 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2144 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2145 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2146 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2147 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2148 there). closes: Bug#34233
2149 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2150 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2151 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2152 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2153 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2155 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2157 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2160 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2161 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2162 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2165 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2166 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2167 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2168 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2169 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2172 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2173 number. closes: BUG#25911
2175 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2176 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2177 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2178 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2179 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2180 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2182 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2183 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2184 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2187 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2188 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2189 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2191 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2192 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2193 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2194 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2196 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2197 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2198 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2200 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2202 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2203 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2204 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2205 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2206 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2207 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2208 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2209 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2212 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2214 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2215 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2218 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2220 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2224 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2226 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2229 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2230 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2231 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2232 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2233 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2234 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2235 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2237 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2238 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2240 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2242 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2244 * non-maintainer release
2245 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2246 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2248 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2249 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2250 * no content changes
2251 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2253 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2255 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2259 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2261 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2263 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2265 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2266 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2267 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2269 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2270 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2272 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2273 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2274 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2275 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2277 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2278 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2279 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2280 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2281 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2282 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2283 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2285 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2286 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2287 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2290 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2291 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2292 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2294 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2295 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2296 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2298 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2299 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2301 * New version numbering scheme:
2303 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2304 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2305 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2308 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2309 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2310 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2311 differ between the manuals.
2313 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2314 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2315 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2316 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2318 * Packaging changes:
2320 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2321 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2323 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2325 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2327 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2331 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2332 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2333 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2335 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2336 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2339 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2340 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2341 file extension as the referenced file
2343 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2344 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2346 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2347 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2348 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2349 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2352 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2353 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2354 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2356 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2357 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2358 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2359 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2362 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2363 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2366 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2367 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2368 reasonable default configuration
2370 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2371 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2372 by all news servers and clients
2374 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2375 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2376 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2377 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2378 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2380 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2381 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2384 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2386 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2387 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2389 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2392 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2393 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2395 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2396 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2398 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2400 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2402 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2404 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2405 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2406 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2407 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2409 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2411 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2412 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2413 * Don't use debstd anymore
2415 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2417 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2420 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2421 contrib/non-free policy
2422 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2423 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2424 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2425 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2426 - new section about `Daemons'
2427 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2428 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2429 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2430 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2431 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2432 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2433 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2434 * SGML source code included in package
2435 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2437 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2439 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2441 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2442 - completely reworked structure
2443 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2444 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2445 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2446 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2447 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2448 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2449 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2450 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2451 - mention "orphaned packages"
2452 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2453 distributions' policy
2454 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2455 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2456 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2457 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2458 - added section about arch spec strings
2459 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2460 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2461 - added section about "menus"
2462 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2463 the new documentation policy soon
2464 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2465 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2467 - added section about editors and pagers
2468 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2469 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2470 - added section about device files
2471 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2472 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2473 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2475 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2476 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2477 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2478 - Added new section about obsolete names
2479 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2480 * Fixed package's description
2482 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2484 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2486 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2488 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2490 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2492 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2493 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2494 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2495 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2497 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2499 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2501 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2502 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2503 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2505 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2506 and upload it "byhand" too.
2508 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2510 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2513 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2514 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2515 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2516 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2517 functionality must not have the same name.
2518 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2519 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2520 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2521 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2522 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2523 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2524 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2526 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2527 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2528 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2529 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2530 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2531 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2532 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2533 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2536 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2538 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2540 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2542 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2543 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2544 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2545 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2546 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2549 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2551 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2553 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2555 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2556 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2557 description of deb file format.
2558 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2559 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2561 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2563 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2564 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2566 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2568 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2570 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2571 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2572 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2573 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2574 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2575 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2576 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2577 packages in section on Procedure
2578 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2579 a package maintainer
2580 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2581 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2582 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2584 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2585 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2586 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2587 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2588 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2589 on various shlib files
2590 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2591 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2592 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2594 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2596 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2598 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2599 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2600 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2602 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2603 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2604 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2605 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2606 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2608 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2610 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2612 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2614 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2616 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2617 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2618 compatibility go in contrib.
2620 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2621 instructions in policy manual.
2622 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2625 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2627 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2629 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2630 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2631 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2632 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2634 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2635 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2638 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2640 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2642 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2643 * More detail about changelog format names.
2645 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2646 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2650 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2652 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2654 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2656 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2658 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2660 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2662 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2664 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2665 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2666 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2668 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2670 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2672 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2674 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2676 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2680 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100