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 * Policy: Requirements for udebs are not well documented yet
20 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
21 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
22 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
23 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
24 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
26 * debconf_spec: Document the 'escape' capability.
27 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
28 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
29 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
31 * Clean outdated mentions of dpkg commands in appendix. Thanks, Guillem Jover
32 * Remove outdated mention of dselect documentation.
33 Closes: #700574. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
34 * Update dak reference from old katie name.
35 Closes: #700536. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
36 * Fix typo in 8.6.4. Thanks, Raúl Benencia. (Closes: #691352)
38 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:32:46 -0700
40 debian-policy (3.9.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
42 * build-arch and build-indep are now mandatory targets in debian/rules,
43 implementing the Technical Committee ruling in #629385. Wording
44 review by Jonathan Nieder, Jakub Wilk, and Roger Leigh.
46 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding tasks.
47 Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #670429)
48 * Policy: Copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8
49 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
50 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
51 Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
52 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
54 * Policy: Prohibit deprecated < and > relations
55 Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
56 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
57 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
59 * Policy: Document the Built-Using field
60 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
61 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
62 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
64 * Policy: Document the Vcs-* fields
65 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
66 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
67 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
68 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
69 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
71 * Policy: Document restrictions on the use of /run for wheezy
72 Wording: Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
73 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
74 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
76 * Policy: Rewrite shared library dependency policy to document symbols
77 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
78 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
79 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
80 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
82 * Policy: Document generic and upstart-specific init system requirements
83 Wording: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
84 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
85 Seconded: Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
87 * Policy: Rely on triggers instead of calling update-mime
88 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
89 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
90 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
93 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:35:36 -0700
95 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
97 * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source
98 package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)
99 * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.
100 Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)
101 and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and
103 * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking
104 whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending
105 dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)
106 * Remove the ambiguous word "installed" when requiring that the location
107 of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)
108 * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not
109 contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)
110 * Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided
111 (currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist
112 or perform the equivalent actions. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some
113 of the wording. (Closes: #601839)
114 * Clearly state that "yes" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed
115 and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)
116 * Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to
117 reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam
118 Morris. (Closes: #658009)
119 * Fix the legal notice in copyright-format to not refer to a nonexistent
121 * Embed the Debian Policy version and build date in the debconf
122 specification and the copyright-format document. We'll make
123 non-normative changes without updating other version numbers, and it's
124 good to know which version one is looking at.
125 * Fix some whitespace issues in the debconf specification articleinfo.
126 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
127 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
128 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
129 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
130 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
131 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
133 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
134 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
135 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
136 * Expand package long description to include all documents.
137 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
139 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
140 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
141 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
143 * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0, and in the process
144 add the license information for the documents other than Policy itself
145 and the FHS. Note the implication of the GPL source code requirement
146 for distributing generated versions of the Policy documents.
148 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:02:12 -0800
150 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
153 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
154 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
155 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
156 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
157 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
158 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
159 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
160 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
161 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
162 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
163 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
164 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
165 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
166 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
168 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
169 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
170 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
171 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
172 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
174 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
175 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
176 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
177 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
178 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
179 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
181 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
182 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
183 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
184 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
186 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
187 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
188 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
189 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
190 Closes: #620870, #532120
191 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
192 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
193 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
194 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
195 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
197 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
198 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
199 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
200 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
201 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
203 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
204 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
205 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
206 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
207 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
209 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
210 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
211 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
212 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
213 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
214 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
215 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
216 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
217 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
218 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
219 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
220 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
221 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
222 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
223 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
224 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
226 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
228 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
229 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
230 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
231 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
232 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
233 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
234 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
235 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
236 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
237 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
240 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
242 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
243 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
244 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
245 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
246 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
247 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
248 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
250 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
251 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
253 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
254 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
255 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
256 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
257 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
259 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
261 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
262 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
263 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
265 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
266 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
267 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
268 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
270 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
271 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
272 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
274 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
275 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
276 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
277 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
278 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
279 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
281 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
282 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
283 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
284 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
286 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
287 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
288 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
289 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
290 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
292 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
293 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
294 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
295 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
296 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
298 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
299 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
300 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
301 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
303 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
304 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
305 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
306 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
309 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
311 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
313 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
314 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
315 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
316 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
317 Closes: #459868, #581011
318 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
319 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
320 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
321 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
323 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
324 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
325 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
326 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
328 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
329 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
330 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
331 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
333 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
334 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
335 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
336 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
338 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
339 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
340 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
341 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
342 Closes: #501930, #593909
343 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
344 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
345 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
346 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
348 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
349 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
350 machine. (Closes: #591857)
351 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
352 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
353 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
354 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
355 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
356 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
357 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
358 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
359 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
360 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
362 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
363 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
364 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
365 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
366 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
367 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
368 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
369 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
370 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
371 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
372 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
373 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
374 than the version in oldstable.
375 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
376 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
377 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
378 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
379 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
380 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
381 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
382 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
383 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
384 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
385 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
386 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
387 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
388 package. (Closes: #609160)
390 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
392 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
394 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
395 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
396 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
397 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
398 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
400 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
401 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
402 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
403 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
405 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
406 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
407 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
408 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
410 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
411 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
412 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
413 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
414 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
415 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
416 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
417 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
418 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
420 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
421 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
422 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
423 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
425 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
426 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
427 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
428 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
430 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
431 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
432 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
433 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
435 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
436 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
437 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
438 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
440 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
441 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
442 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
443 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
444 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
446 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
447 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
448 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
449 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
450 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
452 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
453 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
454 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
455 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
457 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
458 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
459 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
460 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
462 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
463 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
464 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
465 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
467 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
468 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
469 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
470 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
472 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
473 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
474 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
475 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
477 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
478 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
479 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
480 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
482 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
484 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
485 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
486 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
487 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
488 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
489 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
490 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
491 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
492 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
494 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
495 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
496 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
497 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
498 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
499 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
501 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
503 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
506 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
509 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
512 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
513 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
514 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
515 and distribution license' (three times).
516 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
517 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
518 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
519 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
520 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
522 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
524 Proposed by Santiago Vila
525 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
526 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
527 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
528 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
532 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
533 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
534 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
535 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
537 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
538 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
539 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
540 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
541 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
542 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
544 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
545 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
546 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
547 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
549 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
550 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
551 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
552 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
553 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
555 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
556 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
557 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
558 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
559 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
561 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
562 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
563 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
564 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
565 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
567 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
568 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
569 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
570 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
572 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
573 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
574 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
575 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
576 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
578 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
579 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
580 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
581 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
583 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
584 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
585 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
586 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
588 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
589 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
590 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
591 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
592 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
594 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
595 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
596 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
597 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
599 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
600 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
601 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
602 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
603 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
605 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
606 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
607 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
608 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
610 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
611 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
612 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
613 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
614 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
615 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
616 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
617 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
618 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
619 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
620 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
621 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
622 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
623 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
624 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
625 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
626 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
627 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
628 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
629 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
630 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
631 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
632 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
633 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
634 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
635 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
636 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
637 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
638 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
639 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
640 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
641 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
643 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
645 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
647 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
650 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
651 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
653 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
654 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
658 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
661 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
662 Wording: Steve Langasek.
663 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
664 Seconded: Julien Cristau
665 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
668 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
669 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
670 Seconded: Russ Allbery
671 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
674 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
675 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
676 Seconded: Russ Allbery
678 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
679 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
680 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
681 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
682 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
683 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
684 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
685 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
686 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
688 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
689 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
690 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
691 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
692 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
693 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
694 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
695 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
696 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
697 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
698 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
699 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
700 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
701 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
702 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
703 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
705 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
706 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
707 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
708 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
709 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
711 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
714 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
715 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
716 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
717 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
718 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
719 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
722 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
724 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
726 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
727 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
728 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
729 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
731 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
732 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
733 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
734 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
736 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
737 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
738 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
739 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
741 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
742 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
743 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
744 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
745 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
746 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
748 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
749 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
750 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
751 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
752 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
754 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
755 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
756 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
757 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
759 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
760 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
761 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
762 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
764 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
765 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
766 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
767 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
769 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
770 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
771 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
772 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
774 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
775 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
776 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
777 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
779 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
780 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
781 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
782 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
783 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
784 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
785 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
786 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
787 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
788 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
789 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
790 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
791 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
792 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
793 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
795 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
796 Source field descriptions.
797 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
798 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
799 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
800 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
801 description says otherwise.
803 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
805 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
808 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
809 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
810 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
811 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
812 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
813 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
815 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
816 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
817 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
818 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
820 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
821 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
822 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
823 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
825 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
826 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
827 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
828 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
830 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
831 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
832 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
833 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
837 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
838 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
839 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
840 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
841 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
843 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
844 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
845 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
846 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
848 * Add myself to Uploaders.
851 * Add myself to Uploaders.
852 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
854 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
855 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
856 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
858 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
860 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
862 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
863 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
864 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
865 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
867 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
868 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
869 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
870 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
872 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
873 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
874 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
875 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
877 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
878 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
879 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
880 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
882 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
883 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
884 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
885 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
887 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
888 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
889 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
890 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
892 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
893 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
894 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
895 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
897 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
898 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
899 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
900 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
902 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
903 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
904 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
905 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
907 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
908 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
909 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
910 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
912 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
913 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
914 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
915 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
916 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
918 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
919 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
920 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
921 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
922 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
923 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
924 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
925 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
926 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
927 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
928 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
929 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
930 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
931 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
932 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
933 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
934 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
935 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
936 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
937 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
938 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
939 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
940 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
941 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
942 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
943 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
944 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
945 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
946 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
947 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
949 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
950 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
951 links was completed long ago.
952 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
954 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
956 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
958 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
959 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
961 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
963 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
965 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
966 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
967 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
968 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
969 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
970 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
971 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
972 Millan (Closes: #209008).
973 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
974 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
976 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
978 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
980 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
981 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
982 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
983 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
984 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
985 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
986 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
988 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
989 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
990 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
991 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
993 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
994 Küster (Closes: #403391).
995 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
996 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
997 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
998 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
999 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
1000 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1001 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1002 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
1003 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1004 Closes: #186700, #458910
1005 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
1006 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1007 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1009 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
1010 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
1011 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
1012 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
1013 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
1014 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
1015 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
1016 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
1018 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
1019 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
1021 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
1022 * Add an md5sums control file.
1023 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
1024 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
1025 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
1026 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
1027 currently part of policy.
1028 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
1029 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
1030 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
1033 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
1035 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1037 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
1038 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1039 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
1040 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
1041 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
1042 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
1043 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
1044 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
1045 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
1046 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
1047 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
1048 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
1049 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
1050 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
1051 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
1052 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
1054 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
1056 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
1057 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
1058 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
1060 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
1061 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
1062 list?" (Closes: #412634).
1063 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
1064 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
1065 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
1066 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
1067 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
1068 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
1069 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
1070 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
1071 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
1072 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
1073 debconf specification.
1074 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
1075 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
1077 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
1079 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
1082 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
1083 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
1084 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
1085 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
1087 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
1089 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
1090 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
1091 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
1092 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
1093 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1095 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
1096 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
1097 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
1098 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
1099 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
1100 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
1101 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
1102 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
1103 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
1104 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
1105 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
1106 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
1107 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
1108 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
1109 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
1110 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1112 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1114 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
1115 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
1116 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1117 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
1118 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
1119 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
1120 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
1121 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1123 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1125 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1127 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1128 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1129 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1130 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1131 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1132 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1133 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1135 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1136 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1137 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1138 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1139 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1140 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1141 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1142 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1143 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1144 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1146 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1147 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1148 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1149 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1150 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1151 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1153 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1155 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1157 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1158 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1159 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1160 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1162 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1163 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1165 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1167 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1170 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1171 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1172 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1173 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1174 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1175 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1176 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1177 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1178 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1180 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1181 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1182 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1183 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1184 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1185 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1186 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1187 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1188 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1189 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1190 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1193 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1195 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1198 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1199 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1200 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1201 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1202 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1203 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1204 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1205 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1206 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1207 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1208 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1209 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1210 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1211 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1212 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1213 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1214 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1215 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1216 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1217 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1218 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1219 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1220 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1221 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1222 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1223 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1224 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1226 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1227 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1228 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1229 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1230 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1231 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1232 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1233 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1234 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1235 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1236 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1237 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1238 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1239 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1240 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1241 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1243 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1244 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1246 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1247 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1248 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1249 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1250 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1251 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1252 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1253 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1254 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1255 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1256 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1258 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1260 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1264 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1265 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1266 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1267 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1268 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1269 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1270 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1271 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1272 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1273 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1274 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1275 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1277 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1278 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1279 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1280 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1281 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1282 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1283 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1284 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1285 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1286 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1287 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1288 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1289 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1290 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1291 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1292 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1293 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1294 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1295 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1298 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1300 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1302 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1303 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1304 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1305 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1307 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1308 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1309 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1310 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1312 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1314 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1317 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1318 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1319 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1320 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1321 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1322 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1323 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1324 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1325 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1326 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1328 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1329 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1330 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1332 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1333 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1334 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1335 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1336 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1337 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1338 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1340 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1341 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1342 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1343 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1345 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1346 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1347 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1348 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1349 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1350 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1351 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1352 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1354 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1355 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1356 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1357 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1358 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1359 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1360 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1361 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1362 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1363 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1364 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1365 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1366 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1367 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1368 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1369 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1370 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1372 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1374 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1378 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1379 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1380 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1381 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1382 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1383 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1384 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1385 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1387 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1388 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1389 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1390 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1391 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1392 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1393 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1394 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1395 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1396 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1397 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1398 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1399 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1400 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1401 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1402 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1403 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1405 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1406 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1407 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1410 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1411 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1412 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1414 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1415 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1416 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1417 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1418 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1419 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1421 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1422 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1424 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1425 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1426 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1427 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1428 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1429 Closes: #185943, #237049
1431 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1433 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1439 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1440 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1441 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1442 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1443 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1444 running. closes: Bug#187250
1445 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1446 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1447 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1448 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1449 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1450 user closes: Bug#176506
1452 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1454 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1458 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1459 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1460 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1461 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1462 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1463 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1464 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1465 deb-building toolchain.
1466 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1467 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1468 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1469 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1470 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1471 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1472 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1473 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1474 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1475 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1476 sections about changelog files.
1478 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1479 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1480 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1481 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1482 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1483 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1485 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1486 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1487 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1488 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1489 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1490 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1491 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1492 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1493 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1494 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1495 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1496 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1497 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1498 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1499 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1500 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1501 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1502 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1503 for the restructuring
1505 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1507 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1510 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1512 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1513 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1514 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1515 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1516 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1517 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1519 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1520 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1521 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1522 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1523 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1524 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1525 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1527 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1528 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1529 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1530 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1532 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1534 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1538 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1539 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1540 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1541 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1542 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1544 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1545 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1546 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1547 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1549 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1550 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1551 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1552 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1553 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1554 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1555 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1556 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1557 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1558 offtopic stuff, too.
1559 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1560 script should start it, closes: #60979
1561 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1562 "should", closes: #170019
1563 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1564 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1565 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1566 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1567 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1568 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1569 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1570 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1573 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1575 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1578 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1579 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1580 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1581 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1582 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1583 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1584 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1585 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1586 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1588 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1589 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1590 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1591 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1592 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1593 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1594 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1595 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1596 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1598 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1599 file, closes: Bug#65764
1601 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1603 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1606 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1607 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1608 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1609 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1610 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1611 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1612 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1613 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1614 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1615 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1616 details. closes: Bug#133030
1617 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1618 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1619 parts of Bug#161455.
1621 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1623 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1625 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1626 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1627 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1628 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1629 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1630 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1631 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1632 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1633 not. closes: Bug#139820
1634 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1635 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1636 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1637 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1638 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1639 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1640 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1641 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1642 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1643 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1645 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1647 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1648 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1649 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1650 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1651 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1652 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1653 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1654 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1655 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1656 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1657 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1658 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1659 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1660 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1661 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1662 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1663 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1664 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1665 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1666 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1668 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1669 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1670 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1671 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1672 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1673 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1674 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1676 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1677 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1678 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1679 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1680 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1681 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1682 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1683 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1684 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1686 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1688 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1691 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1692 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1693 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1694 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1695 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1696 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1697 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1698 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1699 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1700 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1701 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1702 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1703 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1704 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1705 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1706 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1707 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1708 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1709 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1710 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1711 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1712 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1714 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1716 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1719 medium, high, emergency.
1720 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1721 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1722 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1723 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1724 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1727 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1728 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1729 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1731 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1732 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1733 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1734 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1735 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1736 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1737 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1740 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1742 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1745 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1746 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1747 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1749 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1750 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1751 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1752 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1753 debian/rules to do this
1754 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1755 patches are incorporated upstream
1756 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1757 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1758 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1759 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1760 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1761 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1763 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1764 system closes: Bug#91249
1765 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1766 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1767 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1768 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1769 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1770 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1771 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1772 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1773 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1774 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1775 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1776 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1777 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1779 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1781 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1784 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1785 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1786 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1788 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1789 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1790 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1792 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1795 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1797 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1800 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1801 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1802 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1803 package for the time being
1804 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1805 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1806 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1807 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1808 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1809 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1810 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1811 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1812 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1813 Build-Depends arch syntax
1814 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1816 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1817 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1819 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1820 from policy maintenance duties.
1821 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1822 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1824 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1826 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1828 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1830 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1832 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1835 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1836 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1837 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1838 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1839 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1840 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1841 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1842 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1843 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1844 minor version number for this
1845 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1846 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1847 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1848 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1849 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1850 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1851 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1852 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1853 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1855 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1857 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1860 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1861 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1862 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1863 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1865 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1867 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1868 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1869 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1870 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1871 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1872 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1873 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1874 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1875 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1876 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1877 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1878 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1879 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1880 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1881 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1882 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1885 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1887 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1890 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1892 * Document the Enhances relationship
1893 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1894 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1895 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1896 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1897 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1898 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1900 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1902 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1903 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1904 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1905 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1907 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1908 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1909 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1910 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1911 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1913 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1915 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1918 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1919 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1921 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1922 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1923 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1924 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1925 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1926 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1927 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1928 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1929 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1931 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1933 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1935 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1938 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1939 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1940 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1941 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1942 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1943 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1944 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1945 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1946 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1947 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1948 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1949 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1950 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1951 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1952 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1953 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1954 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1955 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1956 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1957 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1958 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1960 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1961 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1963 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1965 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1967 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1968 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1969 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1970 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1971 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1972 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1973 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1974 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1975 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1976 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1977 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1978 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1979 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1980 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1981 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1982 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1983 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1984 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1985 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1986 list closes: Bug#53756
1987 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1988 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1989 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1990 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1991 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1992 policy closes: Bug#53760
1993 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1994 policy closes: Bug#53761
1995 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1996 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1997 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1998 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1999 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
2000 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
2001 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
2002 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
2003 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
2004 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
2005 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
2007 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
2008 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
2009 to install with older fileutils.
2010 * Installed FHS version 2.1
2011 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
2012 * Added FHS details to copyright file
2013 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
2015 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
2016 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
2018 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
2020 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
2023 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
2025 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
2027 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
2030 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
2032 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
2035 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
2038 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
2040 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
2042 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
2044 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2046 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
2047 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
2049 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
2051 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
2054 #45561, #42447, #48570)
2055 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
2056 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
2057 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
2058 directoried (closes: #41547)
2059 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
2060 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
2061 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
2062 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
2063 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
2064 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
2065 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
2066 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
2067 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
2068 package criteria (closes: #45318)
2069 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
2071 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
2072 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
2073 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
2074 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
2075 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
2076 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
2077 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
2079 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
2080 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
2081 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
2082 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
2084 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
2086 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
2088 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
2089 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
2091 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
2093 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
2096 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
2098 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
2100 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * A few typos and omissions corrected
2103 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
2105 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
2106 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
2107 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
2108 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
2109 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
2110 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
2111 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
2112 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
2113 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
2114 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
2115 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
2116 this closes: Bug#38612
2117 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
2118 before. closes: Bug#40864
2120 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2122 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2125 officially uploaded.
2126 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2128 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2129 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2130 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2132 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2133 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2134 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2135 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2136 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2137 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2139 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2140 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2141 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2143 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2145 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2146 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2147 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2148 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2149 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2151 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2153 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2156 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2157 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2158 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2159 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2160 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2161 there). closes: Bug#34233
2162 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2163 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2164 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2165 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2166 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2168 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2170 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2173 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2174 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2175 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2178 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2179 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2180 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2181 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2182 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2185 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2186 number. closes: BUG#25911
2188 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2189 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2190 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2191 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2192 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2193 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2195 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2196 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2197 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2200 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2201 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2202 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2204 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2205 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2206 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2207 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2209 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2210 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2211 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2213 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2215 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2216 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2217 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2218 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2219 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2220 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2221 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2222 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2225 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2227 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2228 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2231 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2233 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2235 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2237 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2239 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2242 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2243 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2244 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2245 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2246 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2247 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2248 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2250 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2251 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2253 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2255 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2257 * non-maintainer release
2258 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2259 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2261 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2262 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2263 * no content changes
2264 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2266 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2268 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2272 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2274 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2276 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2278 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2279 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2280 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2282 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2283 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2285 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2286 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2287 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2288 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2290 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2291 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2292 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2293 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2294 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2295 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2296 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2298 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2299 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2300 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2303 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2304 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2305 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2307 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2308 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2309 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2311 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2312 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2314 * New version numbering scheme:
2316 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2317 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2318 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2321 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2322 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2323 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2324 differ between the manuals.
2326 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2327 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2328 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2329 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2331 * Packaging changes:
2333 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2334 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2336 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2338 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2340 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2342 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2344 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2345 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2346 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2348 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2349 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2352 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2353 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2354 file extension as the referenced file
2356 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2357 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2359 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2360 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2361 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2362 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2365 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2366 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2367 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2369 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2370 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2371 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2372 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2375 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2376 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2379 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2380 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2381 reasonable default configuration
2383 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2384 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2385 by all news servers and clients
2387 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2388 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2389 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2390 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2391 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2393 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2394 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2397 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2399 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2400 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2402 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2405 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2406 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2408 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2409 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2411 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2413 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2415 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2418 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2419 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2420 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2422 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2424 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2425 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2426 * Don't use debstd anymore
2428 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2430 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2433 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2434 contrib/non-free policy
2435 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2436 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2437 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2438 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2439 - new section about `Daemons'
2440 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2441 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2442 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2443 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2444 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2445 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2446 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2447 * SGML source code included in package
2448 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2450 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2452 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2454 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2455 - completely reworked structure
2456 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2457 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2458 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2459 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2460 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2461 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2462 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2463 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2464 - mention "orphaned packages"
2465 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2466 distributions' policy
2467 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2468 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2469 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2470 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2471 - added section about arch spec strings
2472 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2473 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2474 - added section about "menus"
2475 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2476 the new documentation policy soon
2477 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2478 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2480 - added section about editors and pagers
2481 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2482 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2483 - added section about device files
2484 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2485 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2486 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2488 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2489 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2490 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2491 - Added new section about obsolete names
2492 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2493 * Fixed package's description
2495 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2497 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2499 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2501 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2503 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2505 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2506 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2507 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2508 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2510 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2512 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2514 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2515 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2516 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2518 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2519 and upload it "byhand" too.
2521 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2523 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2526 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2527 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2528 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2529 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2530 functionality must not have the same name.
2531 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2532 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2533 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2534 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2535 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2536 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2537 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2539 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2540 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2541 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2542 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2543 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2544 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2545 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2546 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2549 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2551 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2553 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2555 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2556 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2557 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2558 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2559 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2562 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2564 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2566 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2568 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2569 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2570 description of deb file format.
2571 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2572 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2574 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2576 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2577 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2579 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2581 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2583 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2584 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2585 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2586 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2587 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2588 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2589 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2590 packages in section on Procedure
2591 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2592 a package maintainer
2593 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2594 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2595 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2597 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2598 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2599 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2600 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2601 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2602 on various shlib files
2603 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2604 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2605 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2607 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2609 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2611 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2612 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2613 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2615 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2616 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2617 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2618 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2619 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2621 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2623 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2625 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2627 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2629 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2630 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2631 compatibility go in contrib.
2633 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2634 instructions in policy manual.
2635 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2638 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2640 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2642 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2643 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2644 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2645 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2647 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2648 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2651 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2653 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2655 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2656 * More detail about changelog format names.
2658 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2659 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2663 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2665 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2667 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2669 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2671 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2673 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2675 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2677 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2678 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2679 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2681 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2683 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2685 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2687 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2689 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2693 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100