1 debian-policy (3.9.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
4 * upgrading-checklist.sgml: remove spurious 'details in' leftover from
5 the HTML transition. Closes: #740100. Thanks Jakub Wilk.
6 * Fix use of metasyntactic variable in [11.5.1] Web servers and applications
7 Closes: #737730. Thanks Olivier Berger.
8 * Policy: Remove reference to DEHS (dead service)
9 Wording: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
10 Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
11 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
13 * Policy: Relax /usr/share FHS requirement for directories with mixed content.
14 Wording: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
15 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
16 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
17 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
18 Seconded: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>
20 * Perl Policy: @INC has /usr/lib/perl/5.18, not /usr/lib/perl/5.18.2
21 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
22 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
23 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
25 * Perl Policy: Explain %Config earlier
26 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
27 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
28 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
30 * Perl Policy: @INC changes for multiarch
31 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
32 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
33 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
35 * Perl Policy: Packages using Perl vendorarch directory need a perlapi-*
37 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
38 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
39 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
40 Seconded: Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>
42 * Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch headers directories
43 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
44 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
45 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
47 * Policy: Discourage statically linked binaries
48 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
49 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
50 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
52 * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
55 * Policy: Drop FHS requirement that /usr/local/lib<qual> exist when /lib<qual>
56 or /usr/lib<qual> does.
57 Wording: Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>
58 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
59 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
60 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
63 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jun 2014 21:43:08 +0200
65 debian-policy (3.9.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
67 * Policy: Document the Package-List field.
68 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
69 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
70 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
72 * Policy: DM-Upload-Allowed is now obsolete
73 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
74 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
75 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
76 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
78 * Policy: Checksums-{Sha1,Sha256} are now mandatory
79 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
80 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
81 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
83 * Policy: Requirements for udebs are not well documented yet
84 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
85 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
86 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
87 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
88 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
90 * Policy: install-info is run by a dpkg trigger.
91 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
92 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
93 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
95 * Policy: Stop recommending to serve HTML documents from /usr/share/doc.
96 Wording: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>
97 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
98 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
100 * Policy: File names encoded in UTF-8. ASCII preferred and mandatory in PATH.
101 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
102 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
103 Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
105 * Policy: Document the Dgit field for Debian Source Control files.
106 Wording: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
107 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
108 Seconded: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
109 Seconded: Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox@debian.org>
111 * Policy: Remove the exception to the FHS for the /selinux directory.
112 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
113 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
114 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
116 * Policy: on upgrades, recommend removing obsolete unchanged conf. files.
117 Wording: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
118 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
119 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
121 * Policy: Control data fields must not start with a hyphen character.
122 Wording: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
123 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
124 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
126 * debconf_spec: Document the 'escape' capability.
127 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
128 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
129 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
131 * virtual-package-names-list: removed mp3-decoder and mp3-encoder.
132 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
133 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
134 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
136 * Clean outdated mentions of dpkg commands in appendix. Thanks, Guillem Jover
137 * Remove outdated mention of dselect documentation.
138 Closes: #700574. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
139 * Update dak reference from old katie name.
140 Closes: #700536. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
141 * Fix typo in 8.6.4. Thanks, Raúl Benencia. (Closes: #691352)
142 * Fix typo in 8.6.4.1. Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>.
143 * Added a warning in appendix G about diverting conffiles.
144 Closes: #703022. Thanks, Torsten Jerzembeck.
145 * List build-arch and build-indep with the other required targets in 4.9.
146 Closes: #704657. Thanks, Philipp Hahn.
147 * Replaced non-standard names of dpkg states by normalised ones.
149 * Clarify what is meant by "compressed" in section 10.5. (Closes: #676784)
150 * Packaging: use the VCS URLs proposed by Lintian.
151 * Packaging: normalised debian/control with the tool "config-model-edit".
152 * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
154 -- Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> Mon, 28 Oct 2013 09:40:48 +0900
156 debian-policy (3.9.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
158 * build-arch and build-indep are now mandatory targets in debian/rules,
159 implementing the Technical Committee ruling in #629385. Wording
160 review by Jonathan Nieder, Jakub Wilk, and Roger Leigh.
162 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding tasks.
163 Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #670429)
164 * Policy: Copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8
165 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
166 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
167 Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
168 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
170 * Policy: Prohibit deprecated < and > relations
171 Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
172 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
173 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
175 * Policy: Document the Built-Using field
176 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
177 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
178 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
180 * Policy: Document the Vcs-* fields
181 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
182 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
183 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
184 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
185 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
187 * Policy: Document restrictions on the use of /run for wheezy
188 Wording: Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
189 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
190 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
192 * Policy: Rewrite shared library dependency policy to document symbols
193 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
194 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
195 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
196 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
198 * Policy: Document generic and upstart-specific init system requirements
199 Wording: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
200 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
201 Seconded: Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
203 * Policy: Rely on triggers instead of calling update-mime
204 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
205 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
206 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
209 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:35:36 -0700
211 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
213 * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source
214 package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)
215 * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.
216 Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)
217 and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and
219 * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking
220 whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending
221 dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)
222 * Remove the ambiguous word "installed" when requiring that the location
223 of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)
224 * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not
225 contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)
226 * Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided
227 (currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist
228 or perform the equivalent actions. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some
229 of the wording. (Closes: #601839)
230 * Clearly state that "yes" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed
231 and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)
232 * Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to
233 reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam
234 Morris. (Closes: #658009)
235 * Fix the legal notice in copyright-format to not refer to a nonexistent
237 * Embed the Debian Policy version and build date in the debconf
238 specification and the copyright-format document. We'll make
239 non-normative changes without updating other version numbers, and it's
240 good to know which version one is looking at.
241 * Fix some whitespace issues in the debconf specification articleinfo.
242 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
243 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
244 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
245 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
246 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
247 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
249 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
250 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
251 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
252 * Expand package long description to include all documents.
253 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
255 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
256 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
257 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
259 * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0, and in the process
260 add the license information for the documents other than Policy itself
261 and the FHS. Note the implication of the GPL source code requirement
262 for distributing generated versions of the Policy documents.
264 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:02:12 -0800
266 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
269 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
270 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
271 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
272 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
273 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
274 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
275 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
276 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
277 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
278 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
279 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
280 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
281 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
282 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
284 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
285 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
286 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
287 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
288 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
290 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
291 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
292 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
293 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
294 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
295 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
297 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
298 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
299 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
300 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
302 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
303 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
304 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
305 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
306 Closes: #620870, #532120
307 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
308 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
309 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
310 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
311 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
313 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
314 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
315 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
316 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
317 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
319 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
320 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
321 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
322 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
323 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
325 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
326 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
327 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
328 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
329 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
330 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
331 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
332 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
333 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
334 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
335 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
336 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
337 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
338 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
339 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
340 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
342 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
344 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
345 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
346 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
347 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
348 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
349 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
350 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
351 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
352 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
353 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
356 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
358 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
359 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
360 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
361 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
362 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
363 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
364 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
366 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
367 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
369 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
370 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
371 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
372 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
373 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
375 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
377 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
378 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
379 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
381 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
382 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
383 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
384 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
386 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
387 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
388 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
390 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
391 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
392 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
393 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
394 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
395 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
397 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
398 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
399 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
400 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
402 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
403 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
404 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
405 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
406 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
408 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
409 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
410 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
411 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
412 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
414 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
415 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
416 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
417 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
419 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
420 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
421 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
422 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
425 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
427 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
429 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
430 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
431 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
432 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
433 Closes: #459868, #581011
434 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
435 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
436 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
437 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
439 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
440 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
441 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
442 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
444 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
445 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
446 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
447 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
449 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
450 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
451 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
452 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
454 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
455 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
456 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
457 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
458 Closes: #501930, #593909
459 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
460 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
461 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
462 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
464 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
465 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
466 machine. (Closes: #591857)
467 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
468 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
469 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
470 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
471 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
472 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
473 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
474 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
475 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
476 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
478 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
479 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
480 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
481 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
482 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
483 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
484 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
485 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
486 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
487 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
488 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
489 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
490 than the version in oldstable.
491 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
492 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
493 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
494 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
495 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
496 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
497 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
498 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
499 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
500 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
501 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
502 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
503 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
504 package. (Closes: #609160)
506 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
508 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
510 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
511 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
512 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
513 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
514 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
516 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
517 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
518 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
519 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
521 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
522 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
523 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
524 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
526 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
527 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
528 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
529 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
530 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
531 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
532 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
533 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
534 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
536 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
537 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
538 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
539 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
541 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
542 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
543 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
544 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
546 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
547 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
548 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
549 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
551 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
552 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
553 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
554 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
556 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
557 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
558 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
559 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
560 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
562 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
563 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
564 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
565 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
566 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
568 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
569 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
570 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
571 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
573 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
574 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
575 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
576 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
578 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
579 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
580 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
581 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
583 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
584 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
585 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
586 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
588 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
589 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
590 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
591 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
593 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
594 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
595 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
596 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
598 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
600 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
601 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
602 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
603 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
604 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
605 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
606 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
607 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
608 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
610 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
611 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
612 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
613 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
614 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
615 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
617 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
619 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
622 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
625 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
628 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
629 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
630 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
631 and distribution license' (three times).
632 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
633 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
634 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
635 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
636 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
638 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
640 Proposed by Santiago Vila
641 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
642 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
643 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
644 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
648 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
649 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
650 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
651 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
653 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
654 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
655 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
656 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
657 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
658 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
660 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
661 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
662 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
663 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
665 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
666 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
667 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
668 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
669 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
671 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
672 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
673 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
674 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
675 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
677 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
678 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
679 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
680 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
681 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
683 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
684 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
685 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
686 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
688 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
689 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
690 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
691 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
692 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
694 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
695 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
696 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
697 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
699 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
700 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
701 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
702 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
704 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
705 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
706 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
707 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
708 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
710 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
711 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
712 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
713 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
715 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
716 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
717 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
718 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
719 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
721 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
722 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
723 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
724 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
726 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
727 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
728 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
729 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
730 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
731 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
732 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
733 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
734 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
735 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
736 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
737 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
738 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
739 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
740 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
741 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
742 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
743 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
744 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
745 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
746 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
747 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
748 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
749 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
750 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
751 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
752 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
753 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
754 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
755 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
756 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
757 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
759 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
761 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
763 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
766 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
767 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
769 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
770 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
774 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
777 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
778 Wording: Steve Langasek.
779 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
780 Seconded: Julien Cristau
781 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
784 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
785 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
786 Seconded: Russ Allbery
787 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
790 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
791 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
792 Seconded: Russ Allbery
794 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
795 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
796 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
797 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
798 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
799 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
800 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
801 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
802 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
804 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
805 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
806 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
807 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
808 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
809 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
810 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
811 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
812 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
813 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
814 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
815 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
816 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
817 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
818 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
819 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
821 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
822 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
823 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
824 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
825 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
827 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
830 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
831 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
832 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
833 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
834 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
835 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
838 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
840 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
842 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
843 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
844 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
845 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
847 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
848 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
849 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
850 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
852 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
853 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
854 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
855 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
857 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
858 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
859 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
860 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
861 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
862 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
864 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
865 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
866 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
867 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
868 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
870 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
871 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
872 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
873 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
875 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
876 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
877 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
878 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
880 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
881 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
882 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
883 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
885 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
886 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
887 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
888 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
890 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
891 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
892 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
893 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
895 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
896 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
897 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
898 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
899 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
900 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
901 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
902 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
903 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
904 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
905 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
906 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
907 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
908 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
909 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
911 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
912 Source field descriptions.
913 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
914 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
915 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
916 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
917 description says otherwise.
919 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
921 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
924 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
925 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
926 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
927 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
928 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
929 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
931 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
932 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
933 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
934 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
936 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
937 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
938 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
939 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
941 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
942 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
943 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
944 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
946 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
947 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
948 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
949 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
953 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
954 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
955 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
956 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
957 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
959 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
960 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
961 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
962 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
964 * Add myself to Uploaders.
967 * Add myself to Uploaders.
968 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
970 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
971 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
972 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
974 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
976 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
978 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
979 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
980 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
981 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
983 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
984 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
985 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
986 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
988 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
989 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
990 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
991 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
993 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
994 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
995 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
996 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
998 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
999 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1000 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1001 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1003 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
1004 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1005 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1006 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1008 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
1009 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1010 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
1011 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1013 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
1014 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1015 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1016 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
1018 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
1019 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
1020 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1021 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
1023 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
1024 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
1025 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1026 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
1028 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
1029 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1030 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1031 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
1032 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1034 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
1035 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
1036 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
1037 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
1038 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
1039 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
1040 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
1041 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
1042 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
1043 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
1044 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
1045 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
1046 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
1047 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
1048 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
1049 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
1050 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
1051 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
1052 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
1053 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
1054 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
1055 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
1056 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
1057 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
1058 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
1059 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
1060 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
1061 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
1062 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
1063 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
1065 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
1066 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
1067 links was completed long ago.
1068 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
1070 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
1072 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
1075 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
1077 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
1079 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
1082 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
1083 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
1084 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
1085 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
1086 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
1087 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
1088 Millan (Closes: #209008).
1089 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
1090 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
1092 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
1094 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
1096 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
1097 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
1098 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
1099 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
1100 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
1101 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
1102 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
1104 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
1105 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
1106 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
1107 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
1109 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
1110 Küster (Closes: #403391).
1111 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
1112 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
1113 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
1114 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
1115 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
1116 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1117 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1118 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
1119 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1120 Closes: #186700, #458910
1121 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
1122 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1123 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1125 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
1126 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
1127 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
1128 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
1129 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
1130 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
1131 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
1132 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
1134 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
1135 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
1137 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
1138 * Add an md5sums control file.
1139 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
1140 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
1141 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
1142 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
1143 currently part of policy.
1144 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
1145 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
1146 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
1149 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
1151 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
1154 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1155 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
1156 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
1157 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
1158 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
1159 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
1160 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
1161 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
1162 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
1163 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
1164 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
1165 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
1166 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
1167 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
1168 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
1170 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
1172 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
1173 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
1174 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
1176 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
1177 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
1178 list?" (Closes: #412634).
1179 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
1180 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
1181 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
1182 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
1183 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
1184 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
1185 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
1186 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
1187 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
1188 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
1189 debconf specification.
1190 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
1191 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
1193 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
1195 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
1198 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
1199 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
1200 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
1201 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
1203 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
1205 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
1206 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
1207 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
1208 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
1209 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1211 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
1212 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
1213 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
1214 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
1215 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
1216 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
1217 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
1218 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
1219 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
1220 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
1221 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
1222 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
1223 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
1224 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
1225 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
1226 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1228 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1230 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
1231 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
1232 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1233 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
1234 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
1235 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
1236 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
1237 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1239 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1241 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1244 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1245 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1246 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1247 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1248 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1249 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1251 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1252 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1253 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1254 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1255 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1256 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1257 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1258 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1259 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1260 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1262 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1263 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1264 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1265 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1266 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1267 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1269 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1271 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1274 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1275 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1276 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1278 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1279 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1281 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1283 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1286 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1287 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1288 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1289 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1290 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1291 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1292 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1293 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1294 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1296 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1297 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1298 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1299 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1300 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1301 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1302 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1303 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1304 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1305 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1306 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1309 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1311 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1314 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1315 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1316 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1317 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1318 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1319 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1320 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1321 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1322 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1323 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1324 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1325 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1326 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1327 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1328 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1329 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1330 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1331 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1332 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1333 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1334 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1335 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1336 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1337 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1338 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1339 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1340 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1342 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1343 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1344 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1345 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1346 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1347 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1348 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1349 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1350 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1351 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1352 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1353 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1354 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1355 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1356 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1357 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1359 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1360 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1362 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1363 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1364 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1365 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1366 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1367 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1368 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1369 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1370 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1371 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1372 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1374 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1376 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1379 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1380 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1381 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1382 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1383 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1384 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1385 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1386 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1387 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1388 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1389 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1390 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1391 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1393 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1394 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1395 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1396 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1397 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1398 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1399 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1400 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1401 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1402 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1403 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1404 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1405 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1406 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1407 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1408 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1409 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1410 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1411 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1414 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1416 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1418 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1419 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1420 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1421 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1423 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1424 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1425 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1426 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1428 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1430 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1434 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1435 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1436 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1437 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1438 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1439 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1440 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1441 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1442 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1444 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1445 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1446 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1448 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1449 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1450 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1451 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1452 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1453 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1454 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1456 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1457 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1458 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1459 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1461 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1462 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1463 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1464 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1465 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1466 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1467 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1468 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1470 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1471 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1472 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1473 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1474 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1475 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1476 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1477 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1478 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1479 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1480 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1481 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1482 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1483 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1484 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1485 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1486 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1488 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1490 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1493 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1494 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1495 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1496 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1497 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1498 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1499 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1500 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1501 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1503 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1504 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1505 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1506 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1507 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1508 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1509 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1510 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1511 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1512 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1513 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1514 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1515 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1516 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1517 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1518 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1519 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1521 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1522 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1523 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1526 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1527 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1528 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1530 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1531 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1532 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1533 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1534 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1535 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1537 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1538 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1540 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1541 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1542 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1543 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1544 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1545 Closes: #185943, #237049
1547 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1549 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1555 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1556 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1557 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1558 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1559 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1560 running. closes: Bug#187250
1561 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1562 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1563 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1564 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1565 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1566 user closes: Bug#176506
1568 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1570 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1574 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1575 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1576 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1577 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1578 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1579 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1580 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1581 deb-building toolchain.
1582 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1583 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1584 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1585 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1586 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1587 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1588 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1589 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1590 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1591 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1592 sections about changelog files.
1594 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1595 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1596 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1597 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1598 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1599 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1601 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1602 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1603 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1604 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1605 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1606 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1607 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1608 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1609 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1610 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1611 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1612 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1613 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1614 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1615 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1616 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1617 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1618 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1619 for the restructuring
1621 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1623 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1628 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1629 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1630 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1631 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1632 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1633 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1635 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1636 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1637 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1638 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1639 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1640 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1641 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1643 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1644 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1645 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1646 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1648 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1650 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1653 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1654 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1655 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1656 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1657 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1658 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1660 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1661 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1662 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1663 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1665 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1666 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1667 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1668 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1669 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1670 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1671 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1672 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1673 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1674 offtopic stuff, too.
1675 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1676 script should start it, closes: #60979
1677 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1678 "should", closes: #170019
1679 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1680 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1681 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1682 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1683 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1684 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1685 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1686 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1689 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1691 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1695 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1696 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1697 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1698 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1699 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1700 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1701 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1702 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1704 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1705 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1706 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1707 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1708 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1709 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1710 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1711 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1712 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1714 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1715 file, closes: Bug#65764
1717 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1719 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1722 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1723 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1724 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1725 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1726 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1727 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1728 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1729 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1730 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1731 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1732 details. closes: Bug#133030
1733 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1734 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1735 parts of Bug#161455.
1737 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1739 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1741 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1742 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1743 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1744 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1745 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1746 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1747 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1748 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1749 not. closes: Bug#139820
1750 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1751 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1752 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1753 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1754 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1755 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1756 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1757 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1758 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1759 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1761 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1763 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1764 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1765 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1766 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1767 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1768 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1769 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1770 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1771 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1772 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1773 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1774 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1775 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1776 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1777 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1778 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1779 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1780 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1781 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1782 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1784 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1785 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1786 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1787 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1788 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1789 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1790 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1792 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1793 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1794 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1795 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1796 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1797 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1798 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1799 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1800 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1802 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1804 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1807 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1808 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1809 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1810 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1811 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1812 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1813 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1814 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1815 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1816 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1817 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1818 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1819 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1820 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1821 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1822 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1823 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1824 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1825 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1826 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1827 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1828 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1830 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1832 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1835 medium, high, emergency.
1836 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1837 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1838 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1839 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1840 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1843 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1844 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1845 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1847 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1848 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1849 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1850 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1851 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1852 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1853 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1856 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1858 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1861 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1862 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1863 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1865 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1866 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1867 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1868 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1869 debian/rules to do this
1870 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1871 patches are incorporated upstream
1872 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1873 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1874 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1875 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1876 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1877 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1879 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1880 system closes: Bug#91249
1881 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1882 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1883 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1884 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1885 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1886 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1887 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1888 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1889 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1890 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1891 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1892 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1893 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1895 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1897 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1899 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1900 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1901 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1902 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1904 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1905 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1906 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1908 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1911 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1913 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1916 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1917 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1918 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1919 package for the time being
1920 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1921 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1922 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1923 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1924 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1925 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1926 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1927 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1928 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1929 Build-Depends arch syntax
1930 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1932 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1933 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1935 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1936 from policy maintenance duties.
1937 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1938 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1940 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1942 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1946 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1948 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1951 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1952 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1953 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1954 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1955 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1956 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1957 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1958 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1959 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1960 minor version number for this
1961 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1962 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1963 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1964 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1965 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1966 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1967 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1968 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1969 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1971 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1973 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1976 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1977 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1978 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1979 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1981 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1983 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1984 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1985 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1986 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1987 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1988 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1989 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1990 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1991 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1992 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1993 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1994 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1995 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1996 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1997 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1998 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
2001 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
2003 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
2006 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
2008 * Document the Enhances relationship
2009 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
2010 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
2011 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
2012 policy. closes: Bug#53496
2013 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
2014 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
2016 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
2018 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
2019 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
2020 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
2021 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
2023 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
2024 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
2025 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
2026 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
2027 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
2029 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
2031 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2033 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
2034 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
2035 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
2037 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
2038 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
2039 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
2040 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
2041 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
2042 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
2043 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
2044 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
2045 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
2047 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
2049 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
2051 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
2054 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
2055 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
2056 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
2057 policy. closes: Bug#64437
2058 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
2059 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
2060 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
2061 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
2062 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
2063 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
2064 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
2065 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
2066 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
2067 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
2068 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
2069 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
2070 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
2071 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
2072 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
2073 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
2074 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
2076 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
2077 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
2079 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
2081 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
2084 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
2085 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
2086 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
2087 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
2088 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
2089 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
2090 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
2091 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
2092 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
2093 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
2094 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
2095 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
2096 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
2097 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
2098 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
2099 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
2100 alternative closes: Bug#53755
2101 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
2102 list closes: Bug#53756
2103 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
2104 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
2105 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
2106 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
2107 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
2108 policy closes: Bug#53760
2109 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
2110 policy closes: Bug#53761
2111 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
2112 that use X closes: Bug#53762
2113 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
2114 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
2115 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
2116 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
2117 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
2118 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
2119 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
2120 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
2121 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
2123 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
2124 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
2125 to install with older fileutils.
2126 * Installed FHS version 2.1
2127 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
2128 * Added FHS details to copyright file
2129 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
2131 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
2132 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
2134 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
2136 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2138 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
2139 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
2141 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
2143 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
2146 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
2148 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
2151 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
2154 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
2156 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
2158 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
2160 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
2163 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
2165 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
2167 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
2170 #45561, #42447, #48570)
2171 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
2172 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
2173 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
2174 directoried (closes: #41547)
2175 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
2176 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
2177 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
2178 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
2179 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
2180 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
2181 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
2182 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
2183 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
2184 package criteria (closes: #45318)
2185 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
2187 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
2188 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
2189 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
2190 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
2191 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
2192 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
2193 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
2195 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
2196 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
2197 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
2198 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
2200 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
2202 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
2204 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
2205 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
2207 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
2209 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
2212 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
2214 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
2216 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * A few typos and omissions corrected
2219 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
2221 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
2222 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
2223 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
2224 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
2225 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
2226 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
2227 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
2228 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
2229 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
2230 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
2231 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
2232 this closes: Bug#38612
2233 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
2234 before. closes: Bug#40864
2236 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2238 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2241 officially uploaded.
2242 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2244 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2245 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2246 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2248 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2249 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2250 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2251 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2252 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2253 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2255 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2256 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2257 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2259 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2261 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2262 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2263 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2264 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2265 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2267 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2269 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2272 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2273 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2274 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2275 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2276 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2277 there). closes: Bug#34233
2278 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2279 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2280 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2281 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2282 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2284 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2286 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2289 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2290 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2291 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2294 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2295 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2296 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2297 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2298 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2301 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2302 number. closes: BUG#25911
2304 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2305 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2306 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2307 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2308 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2309 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2311 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2312 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2313 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2316 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2317 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2318 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2320 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2321 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2322 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2323 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2325 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2326 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2327 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2329 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2331 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2332 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2333 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2334 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2335 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2336 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2337 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2338 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2341 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2343 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2344 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2347 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2349 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2351 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2353 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2355 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2357 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2358 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2359 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2360 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2361 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2362 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2363 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2364 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2366 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2367 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2369 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2371 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2373 * non-maintainer release
2374 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2375 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2377 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2378 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2379 * no content changes
2380 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2382 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2384 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2388 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2390 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2392 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2394 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2395 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2396 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2398 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2399 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2401 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2402 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2403 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2404 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2406 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2407 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2408 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2409 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2410 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2411 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2412 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2414 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2415 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2416 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2419 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2420 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2421 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2423 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2424 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2425 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2427 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2428 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2430 * New version numbering scheme:
2432 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2433 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2434 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2437 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2438 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2439 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2440 differ between the manuals.
2442 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2443 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2444 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2445 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2447 * Packaging changes:
2449 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2450 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2452 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2454 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2456 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2460 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2461 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2462 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2464 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2465 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2468 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2469 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2470 file extension as the referenced file
2472 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2473 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2475 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2476 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2477 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2478 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2481 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2482 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2483 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2485 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2486 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2487 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2488 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2491 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2492 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2495 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2496 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2497 reasonable default configuration
2499 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2500 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2501 by all news servers and clients
2503 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2504 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2505 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2506 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2507 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2509 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2510 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2513 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2515 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2516 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2518 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2521 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2522 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2524 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2525 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2527 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2529 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2531 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2533 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2534 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2535 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2536 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2538 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2540 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2541 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2542 * Don't use debstd anymore
2544 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2546 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2548 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2549 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2550 contrib/non-free policy
2551 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2552 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2553 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2554 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2555 - new section about `Daemons'
2556 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2557 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2558 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2559 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2560 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2561 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2562 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2563 * SGML source code included in package
2564 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2566 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2568 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2571 - completely reworked structure
2572 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2573 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2574 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2575 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2576 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2577 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2578 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2579 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2580 - mention "orphaned packages"
2581 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2582 distributions' policy
2583 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2584 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2585 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2586 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2587 - added section about arch spec strings
2588 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2589 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2590 - added section about "menus"
2591 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2592 the new documentation policy soon
2593 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2594 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2596 - added section about editors and pagers
2597 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2598 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2599 - added section about device files
2600 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2601 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2602 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2604 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2605 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2606 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2607 - Added new section about obsolete names
2608 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2609 * Fixed package's description
2611 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2613 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2615 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2617 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2619 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2621 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2622 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2623 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2624 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2626 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2628 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2630 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2631 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2632 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2634 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2635 and upload it "byhand" too.
2637 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2639 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2643 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2644 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2645 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2646 functionality must not have the same name.
2647 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2648 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2649 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2650 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2651 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2652 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2653 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2655 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2656 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2657 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2658 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2659 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2660 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2661 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2662 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2665 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2667 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2669 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2671 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2672 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2673 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2674 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2675 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2678 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2680 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2682 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2684 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2685 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2686 description of deb file format.
2687 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2688 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2690 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2692 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2693 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2695 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2697 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2699 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2700 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2701 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2702 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2703 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2704 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2705 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2706 packages in section on Procedure
2707 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2708 a package maintainer
2709 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2710 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2711 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2713 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2714 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2715 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2716 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2717 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2718 on various shlib files
2719 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2720 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2721 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2723 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2725 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2727 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2728 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2729 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2731 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2732 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2733 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2734 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2735 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2737 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2739 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2741 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2743 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2745 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2746 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2747 compatibility go in contrib.
2749 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2750 instructions in policy manual.
2751 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2754 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2756 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2758 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2759 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2760 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2761 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2763 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2764 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2767 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2769 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2771 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2772 * More detail about changelog format names.
2774 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2775 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2779 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2781 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2783 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2785 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2787 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2789 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2791 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2793 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2794 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2795 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2797 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2799 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2801 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2803 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2805 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2809 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100