1 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source
4 package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)
5 * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.
6 Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)
7 and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and
9 * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking
10 whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending
11 dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)
12 * Remove the ambiguous word "installed" when requiring that the location
13 of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)
14 * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not
15 contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)
16 * Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided
17 (currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist
18 or perform the equivalent actions. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some
19 of the wording. (Closes: #601839)
20 * Clearly state that "yes" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed
21 and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)
22 * Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to
23 reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam
24 Morris. (Closes: #658009)
25 * Fix the legal notice in copyright-format to not refer to a nonexistent
27 * Embed the Debian Policy version and build date in the debconf
28 specification and the copyright-format document. We'll make
29 non-normative changes without updating other version numbers, and it's
30 good to know which version one is looking at.
31 * Fix some whitespace issues in the debconf specification articleinfo.
32 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
33 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
34 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
35 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
36 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
37 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
39 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
40 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
41 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
42 * Expand package long description to include all documents.
43 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
45 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
46 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
47 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
49 * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0, and in the process
50 add the license information for the documents other than Policy itself
51 and the FHS. Note the implication of the GPL source code requirement
52 for distributing generated versions of the Policy documents.
54 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:02:12 -0800
56 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
59 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
60 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
61 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
62 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
63 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
64 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
65 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
66 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
67 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
68 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
69 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
70 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
71 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
72 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
74 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
75 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
76 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
77 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
78 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
80 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
81 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
82 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
83 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
84 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
85 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
87 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
88 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
89 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
90 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
92 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
93 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
94 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
95 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
96 Closes: #620870, #532120
97 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
98 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
99 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
100 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
101 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
103 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
104 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
105 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
106 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
107 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
109 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
110 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
111 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
112 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
113 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
115 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
116 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
117 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
118 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
119 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
120 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
121 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
122 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
123 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
124 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
125 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
126 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
127 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
128 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
129 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
130 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
132 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
134 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
135 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
136 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
137 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
138 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
139 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
140 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
141 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
142 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
143 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
146 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
148 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
149 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
150 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
151 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
152 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
153 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
154 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
156 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
157 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
159 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
160 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
161 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
162 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
163 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
165 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
167 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
168 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
169 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
171 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
172 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
173 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
174 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
176 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
177 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
178 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
180 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
181 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
182 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
183 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
184 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
185 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
187 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
188 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
189 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
190 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
192 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
193 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
194 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
195 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
196 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
198 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
199 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
200 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
201 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
202 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
204 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
205 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
206 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
207 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
209 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
210 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
211 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
212 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
215 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
217 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
219 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
220 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
221 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
222 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
223 Closes: #459868, #581011
224 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
225 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
226 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
227 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
229 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
230 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
231 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
232 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
234 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
235 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
236 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
237 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
239 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
240 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
241 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
242 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
244 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
245 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
246 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
247 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
248 Closes: #501930, #593909
249 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
250 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
251 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
252 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
254 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
255 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
256 machine. (Closes: #591857)
257 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
258 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
259 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
260 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
261 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
262 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
263 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
264 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
265 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
266 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
268 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
269 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
270 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
271 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
272 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
273 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
274 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
275 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
276 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
277 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
278 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
279 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
280 than the version in oldstable.
281 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
282 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
283 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
284 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
285 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
286 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
287 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
288 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
289 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
290 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
291 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
292 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
293 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
294 package. (Closes: #609160)
296 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
298 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
300 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
301 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
302 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
303 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
304 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
306 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
307 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
308 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
309 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
311 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
312 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
313 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
314 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
316 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
317 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
318 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
319 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
320 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
321 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
322 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
323 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
324 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
326 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
327 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
328 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
329 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
331 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
332 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
333 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
334 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
336 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
337 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
338 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
339 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
341 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
342 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
343 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
344 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
346 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
347 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
348 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
349 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
350 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
352 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
353 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
354 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
355 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
356 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
358 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
359 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
360 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
361 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
363 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
364 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
365 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
366 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
368 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
369 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
370 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
371 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
373 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
374 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
375 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
376 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
378 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
379 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
380 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
381 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
383 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
384 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
385 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
386 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
388 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
390 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
391 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
392 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
393 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
394 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
395 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
396 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
397 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
398 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
400 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
401 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
402 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
403 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
404 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
405 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
407 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
409 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
412 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
415 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
418 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
419 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
420 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
421 and distribution license' (three times).
422 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
423 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
424 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
425 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
426 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
428 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
430 Proposed by Santiago Vila
431 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
432 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
433 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
434 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
438 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
439 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
440 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
441 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
443 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
444 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
445 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
446 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
447 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
448 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
450 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
451 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
452 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
453 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
455 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
456 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
457 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
458 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
459 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
461 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
462 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
463 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
464 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
465 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
467 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
468 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
469 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
470 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
471 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
473 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
474 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
475 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
476 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
478 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
479 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
480 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
481 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
482 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
484 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
485 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
486 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
487 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
489 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
490 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
491 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
492 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
494 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
495 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
496 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
497 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
498 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
500 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
501 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
502 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
503 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
505 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
506 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
507 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
508 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
509 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
511 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
512 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
513 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
514 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
516 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
517 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
518 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
519 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
520 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
521 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
522 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
523 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
524 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
525 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
526 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
527 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
528 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
529 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
530 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
531 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
532 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
533 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
534 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
535 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
536 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
537 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
538 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
539 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
540 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
541 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
542 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
543 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
544 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
545 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
546 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
547 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
549 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
551 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
553 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
556 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
557 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
559 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
560 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
564 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
567 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
568 Wording: Steve Langasek.
569 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
570 Seconded: Julien Cristau
571 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
574 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
575 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
576 Seconded: Russ Allbery
577 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
580 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
581 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
582 Seconded: Russ Allbery
584 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
585 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
586 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
587 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
588 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
589 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
590 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
591 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
592 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
594 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
595 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
596 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
597 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
598 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
599 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
600 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
601 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
602 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
603 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
604 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
605 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
606 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
607 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
608 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
609 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
611 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
612 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
613 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
614 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
615 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
617 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
620 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
621 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
622 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
623 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
624 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
625 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
628 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
630 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
632 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
633 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
634 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
635 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
637 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
638 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
639 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
640 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
642 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
643 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
644 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
645 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
647 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
648 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
649 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
650 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
651 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
652 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
654 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
655 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
656 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
657 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
658 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
660 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
661 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
662 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
663 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
665 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
666 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
667 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
668 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
670 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
671 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
672 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
673 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
675 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
676 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
677 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
678 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
680 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
681 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
682 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
683 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
685 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
686 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
687 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
688 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
689 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
690 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
691 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
692 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
693 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
694 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
695 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
696 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
697 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
698 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
699 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
701 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
702 Source field descriptions.
703 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
704 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
705 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
706 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
707 description says otherwise.
709 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
711 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
714 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
715 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
716 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
717 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
718 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
719 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
721 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
722 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
723 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
724 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
726 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
727 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
728 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
729 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
731 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
732 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
733 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
734 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
736 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
737 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
738 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
739 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
743 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
744 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
745 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
746 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
747 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
749 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
750 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
751 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
752 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
754 * Add myself to Uploaders.
757 * Add myself to Uploaders.
758 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
760 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
761 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
762 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
764 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
766 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
768 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
769 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
770 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
771 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
773 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
774 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
775 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
776 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
778 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
779 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
780 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
781 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
783 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
784 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
785 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
786 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
788 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
789 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
790 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
791 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
793 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
794 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
795 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
796 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
798 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
799 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
800 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
801 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
803 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
804 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
805 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
806 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
808 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
809 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
810 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
811 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
813 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
814 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
815 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
816 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
818 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
819 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
820 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
821 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
822 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
824 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
825 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
826 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
827 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
828 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
829 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
830 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
831 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
832 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
833 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
834 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
835 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
836 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
837 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
838 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
839 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
840 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
841 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
842 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
843 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
844 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
845 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
846 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
847 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
848 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
849 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
850 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
851 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
852 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
853 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
855 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
856 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
857 links was completed long ago.
858 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
860 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
862 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
864 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
865 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
867 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
869 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
871 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
872 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
873 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
874 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
875 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
876 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
877 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
878 Millan (Closes: #209008).
879 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
880 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
882 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
884 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
886 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
887 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
888 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
889 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
890 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
891 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
892 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
894 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
895 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
896 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
897 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
899 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
900 Küster (Closes: #403391).
901 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
902 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
903 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
904 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
905 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
906 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
907 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
908 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
909 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
910 Closes: #186700, #458910
911 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
912 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
913 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
915 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
916 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
917 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
918 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
919 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
920 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
921 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
922 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
924 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
925 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
927 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
928 * Add an md5sums control file.
929 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
930 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
931 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
932 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
933 currently part of policy.
934 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
935 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
936 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
939 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
941 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
943 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
944 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
945 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
946 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
947 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
948 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
949 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
950 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
951 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
952 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
953 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
954 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
955 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
956 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
957 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
958 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
960 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
962 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
963 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
964 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
966 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
967 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
968 list?" (Closes: #412634).
969 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
970 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
971 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
972 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
973 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
974 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
975 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
976 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
977 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
978 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
979 debconf specification.
980 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
981 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
983 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
985 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
987 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
988 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
989 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
990 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
991 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
993 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
995 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
996 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
997 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
998 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
999 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1001 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
1002 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
1003 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
1004 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
1005 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
1006 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
1007 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
1008 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
1009 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
1010 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
1011 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
1012 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
1013 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
1014 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
1015 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
1016 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1018 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1020 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
1021 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
1022 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1023 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
1024 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
1025 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
1026 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
1027 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1029 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1031 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1034 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1035 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1036 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1037 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1038 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1039 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1041 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1042 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1043 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1044 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1045 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1046 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1047 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1048 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1049 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1050 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1052 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1053 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1054 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1055 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1056 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1057 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1059 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1061 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1064 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1065 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1066 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1068 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1069 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1071 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1073 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1076 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1077 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1078 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1079 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1080 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1081 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1082 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1083 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1084 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1086 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1087 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1088 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1089 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1090 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1091 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1092 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1093 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1094 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1095 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1096 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1099 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1101 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1103 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1104 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1105 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1106 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1107 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1108 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1109 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1110 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1111 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1112 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1113 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1114 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1115 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1116 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1117 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1118 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1119 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1120 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1121 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1122 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1123 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1124 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1125 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1126 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1127 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1128 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1129 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1130 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1132 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1133 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1134 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1135 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1136 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1137 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1138 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1139 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1140 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1141 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1142 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1143 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1144 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1145 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1146 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1147 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1149 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1150 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1152 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1153 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1154 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1155 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1156 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1157 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1158 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1159 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1160 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1161 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1162 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1164 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1166 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1170 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1171 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1172 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1173 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1174 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1175 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1176 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1177 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1178 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1179 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1180 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1181 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1183 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1184 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1185 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1186 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1187 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1188 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1189 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1190 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1191 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1192 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1193 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1194 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1195 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1196 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1197 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1198 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1199 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1200 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1201 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1204 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1206 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1209 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1210 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1211 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1213 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1214 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1215 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1216 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1218 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1220 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1224 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1225 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1226 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1227 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1228 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1229 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1230 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1231 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1232 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1234 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1235 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1236 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1238 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1239 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1240 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1241 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1242 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1243 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1244 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1246 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1247 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1248 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1249 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1251 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1252 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1253 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1254 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1255 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1256 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1257 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1258 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1260 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1261 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1262 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1263 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1264 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1265 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1266 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1267 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1268 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1269 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1270 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1271 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1272 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1273 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1274 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1275 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1276 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1278 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1280 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1284 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1285 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1286 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1287 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1288 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1289 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1290 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1291 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1293 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1294 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1295 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1296 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1297 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1298 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1299 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1300 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1301 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1302 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1303 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1304 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1305 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1306 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1307 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1308 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1309 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1311 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1312 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1313 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1316 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1317 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1318 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1320 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1321 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1322 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1323 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1324 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1325 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1327 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1328 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1330 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1331 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1332 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1333 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1334 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1335 Closes: #185943, #237049
1337 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1339 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1342 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1345 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1346 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1347 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1348 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1349 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1350 running. closes: Bug#187250
1351 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1352 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1353 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1354 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1355 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1356 user closes: Bug#176506
1358 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1360 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1363 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1364 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1365 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1366 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1367 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1368 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1369 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1370 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1371 deb-building toolchain.
1372 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1373 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1374 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1375 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1376 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1377 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1378 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1379 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1380 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1381 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1382 sections about changelog files.
1384 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1385 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1386 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1387 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1388 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1389 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1391 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1392 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1393 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1394 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1395 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1396 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1397 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1398 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1399 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1400 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1401 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1402 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1403 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1404 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1405 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1406 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1407 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1408 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1409 for the restructuring
1411 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1413 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1418 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1419 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1420 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1421 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1422 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1423 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1425 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1426 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1427 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1428 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1429 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1430 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1431 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1433 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1434 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1435 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1436 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1438 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1440 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1443 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1444 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1445 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1446 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1447 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1448 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1450 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1451 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1452 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1453 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1455 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1456 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1457 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1458 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1459 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1460 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1461 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1462 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1463 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1464 offtopic stuff, too.
1465 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1466 script should start it, closes: #60979
1467 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1468 "should", closes: #170019
1469 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1470 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1471 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1472 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1473 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1474 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1475 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1476 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1479 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1481 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1485 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1486 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1487 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1488 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1489 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1490 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1491 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1492 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1494 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1495 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1496 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1497 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1498 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1499 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1500 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1501 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1502 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1504 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1505 file, closes: Bug#65764
1507 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1509 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1512 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1513 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1514 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1515 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1516 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1517 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1518 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1519 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1520 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1521 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1522 details. closes: Bug#133030
1523 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1524 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1525 parts of Bug#161455.
1527 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1529 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1531 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1532 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1533 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1534 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1535 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1536 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1537 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1538 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1539 not. closes: Bug#139820
1540 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1541 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1542 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1543 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1544 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1545 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1546 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1547 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1548 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1549 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1551 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1553 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1554 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1555 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1556 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1557 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1558 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1559 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1560 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1561 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1562 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1563 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1564 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1565 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1566 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1567 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1568 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1569 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1570 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1571 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1572 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1574 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1575 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1576 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1577 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1578 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1579 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1580 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1582 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1583 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1584 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1585 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1586 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1587 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1588 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1589 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1590 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1592 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1594 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1597 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1598 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1599 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1600 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1601 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1602 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1603 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1604 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1605 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1606 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1607 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1608 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1609 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1610 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1611 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1612 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1613 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1614 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1615 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1616 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1617 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1618 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1620 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1622 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1625 medium, high, emergency.
1626 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1627 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1628 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1629 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1630 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1633 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1634 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1635 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1637 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1638 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1639 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1640 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1641 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1642 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1643 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1646 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1648 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1651 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1652 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1653 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1655 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1656 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1657 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1658 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1659 debian/rules to do this
1660 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1661 patches are incorporated upstream
1662 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1663 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1664 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1665 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1666 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1667 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1669 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1670 system closes: Bug#91249
1671 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1672 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1673 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1674 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1675 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1676 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1677 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1678 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1679 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1680 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1681 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1682 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1683 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1685 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1687 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1690 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1691 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1692 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1694 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1695 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1696 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1698 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1701 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1703 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1705 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1706 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1707 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1708 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1709 package for the time being
1710 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1711 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1712 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1713 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1714 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1715 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1716 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1717 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1718 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1719 Build-Depends arch syntax
1720 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1722 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1723 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1725 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1726 from policy maintenance duties.
1727 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1728 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1730 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1732 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1734 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1736 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1738 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1741 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1742 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1743 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1744 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1745 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1746 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1747 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1748 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1749 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1750 minor version number for this
1751 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1752 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1753 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1754 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1755 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1756 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1757 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1758 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1759 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1761 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1763 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1766 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1767 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1768 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1769 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1771 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1773 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1774 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1775 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1776 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1777 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1778 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1779 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1780 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1781 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1782 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1783 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1784 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1785 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1786 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1787 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1788 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1791 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1793 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1796 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1798 * Document the Enhances relationship
1799 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1800 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1801 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1802 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1803 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1804 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1806 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1808 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1809 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1810 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1811 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1813 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1814 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1815 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1816 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1817 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1819 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1821 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1824 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1825 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1827 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1828 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1829 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1830 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1831 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1832 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1833 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1834 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1835 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1837 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1839 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1841 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1844 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1845 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1846 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1847 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1848 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1849 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1850 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1851 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1852 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1853 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1854 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1855 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1856 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1857 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1858 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1859 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1860 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1861 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1862 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1863 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1864 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1866 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1867 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1869 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1871 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1874 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1875 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1876 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1877 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1878 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1879 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1880 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1881 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1882 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1883 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1884 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1885 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1886 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1887 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1888 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1889 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1890 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1891 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1892 list closes: Bug#53756
1893 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1894 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1895 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1896 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1897 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1898 policy closes: Bug#53760
1899 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1900 policy closes: Bug#53761
1901 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1902 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1903 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1904 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1905 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1906 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1907 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1908 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1909 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1910 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1911 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1913 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1914 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1915 to install with older fileutils.
1916 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1917 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1918 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1919 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1921 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1922 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1924 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1926 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1929 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1931 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1933 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1935 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1936 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1938 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1941 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1943 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1944 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1946 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1948 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1950 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1953 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1955 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1957 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1960 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1961 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1962 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1963 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1964 directoried (closes: #41547)
1965 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1966 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1967 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1968 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1969 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1970 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1971 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1972 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1973 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1974 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1975 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1977 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1978 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1979 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1980 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1981 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1982 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1983 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1985 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1986 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1987 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1988 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1990 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1992 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1994 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1995 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1997 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1999 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
2002 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
2004 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
2006 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2008 * A few typos and omissions corrected
2009 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
2011 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
2012 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
2013 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
2014 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
2015 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
2016 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
2017 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
2018 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
2019 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
2020 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
2021 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
2022 this closes: Bug#38612
2023 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
2024 before. closes: Bug#40864
2026 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2028 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2031 officially uploaded.
2032 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2034 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2035 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2036 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2038 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2039 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2040 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2041 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2042 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2043 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2045 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2046 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2047 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2049 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2051 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2052 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2053 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2054 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2055 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2057 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2059 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2062 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2063 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2064 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2065 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2066 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2067 there). closes: Bug#34233
2068 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2069 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2070 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2071 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2072 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2074 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2076 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2078 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2079 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2080 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2081 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2084 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2085 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2086 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2087 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2088 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2091 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2092 number. closes: BUG#25911
2094 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2095 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2096 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2097 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2098 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2099 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2101 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2102 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2103 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2106 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2107 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2108 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2110 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2111 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2112 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2113 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2115 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2116 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2117 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2119 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2121 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2122 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2123 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2124 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2125 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2126 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2127 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2128 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2131 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2133 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2134 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2137 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2139 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2141 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2143 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2145 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2148 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2149 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2150 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2151 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2152 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2153 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2154 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2156 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2157 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2159 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2161 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2163 * non-maintainer release
2164 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2165 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2167 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2168 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2169 * no content changes
2170 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2172 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2174 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2178 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2180 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2182 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2184 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2185 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2186 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2188 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2189 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2191 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2192 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2193 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2194 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2196 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2197 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2198 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2199 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2200 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2201 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2202 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2204 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2205 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2206 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2209 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2210 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2211 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2213 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2214 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2215 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2217 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2218 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2220 * New version numbering scheme:
2222 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2223 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2224 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2227 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2228 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2229 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2230 differ between the manuals.
2232 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2233 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2234 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2235 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2237 * Packaging changes:
2239 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2240 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2242 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2244 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2246 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2250 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2251 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2252 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2254 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2255 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2258 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2259 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2260 file extension as the referenced file
2262 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2263 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2265 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2266 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2267 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2268 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2271 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2272 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2273 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2275 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2276 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2277 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2278 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2281 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2282 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2285 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2286 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2287 reasonable default configuration
2289 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2290 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2291 by all news servers and clients
2293 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2294 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2295 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2296 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2297 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2299 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2300 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2303 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2305 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2306 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2308 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2311 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2312 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2314 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2315 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2317 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2319 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2321 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2323 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2324 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2325 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2326 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2328 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2330 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2331 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2332 * Don't use debstd anymore
2334 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2336 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2339 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2340 contrib/non-free policy
2341 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2342 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2343 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2344 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2345 - new section about `Daemons'
2346 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2347 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2348 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2349 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2350 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2351 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2352 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2353 * SGML source code included in package
2354 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2356 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2358 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2361 - completely reworked structure
2362 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2363 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2364 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2365 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2366 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2367 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2368 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2369 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2370 - mention "orphaned packages"
2371 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2372 distributions' policy
2373 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2374 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2375 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2376 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2377 - added section about arch spec strings
2378 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2379 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2380 - added section about "menus"
2381 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2382 the new documentation policy soon
2383 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2384 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2386 - added section about editors and pagers
2387 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2388 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2389 - added section about device files
2390 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2391 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2392 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2394 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2395 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2396 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2397 - Added new section about obsolete names
2398 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2399 * Fixed package's description
2401 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2403 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2405 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2407 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2409 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2411 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2412 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2413 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2414 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2416 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2418 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2420 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2421 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2422 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2424 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2425 and upload it "byhand" too.
2427 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2429 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2433 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2434 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2435 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2436 functionality must not have the same name.
2437 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2438 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2439 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2440 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2441 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2442 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2443 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2445 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2446 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2447 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2448 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2449 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2450 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2451 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2452 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2455 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2457 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2459 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2461 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2462 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2463 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2464 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2465 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2468 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2470 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2472 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2474 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2475 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2476 description of deb file format.
2477 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2478 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2480 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2482 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2483 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2485 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2487 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2489 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2490 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2491 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2492 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2493 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2494 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2495 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2496 packages in section on Procedure
2497 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2498 a package maintainer
2499 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2500 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2501 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2503 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2504 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2505 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2506 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2507 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2508 on various shlib files
2509 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2510 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2511 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2513 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2515 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2517 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2518 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2519 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2521 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2522 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2523 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2524 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2525 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2527 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2529 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2531 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2533 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2535 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2536 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2537 compatibility go in contrib.
2539 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2540 instructions in policy manual.
2541 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2544 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2546 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2548 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2549 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2550 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2551 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2553 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2554 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2557 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2559 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2561 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2562 * More detail about changelog format names.
2564 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2565 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2569 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2571 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2573 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2575 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2577 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2579 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2581 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2583 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2584 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2585 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2587 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2589 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2591 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2593 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2595 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2599 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100