1 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source
4 package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)
5 * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.
6 Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)
7 and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and
9 * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking
10 whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending
11 dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)
12 * Remove the ambiguous word "installed" when requiring that the location
13 of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)
14 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
15 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
16 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
17 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
18 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
19 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
21 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
22 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
23 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
24 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
26 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
27 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
28 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
31 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:07:42 -0800
33 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
36 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
37 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
38 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
39 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
40 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
41 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
42 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
43 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
44 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
45 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
46 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
47 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
48 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
49 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
51 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
52 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
53 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
54 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
55 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
57 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
58 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
59 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
60 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
61 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
62 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
64 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
65 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
66 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
67 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
69 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
70 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
71 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
72 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
73 Closes: #620870, #532120
74 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
75 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
76 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
77 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
78 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
80 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
81 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
82 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
83 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
84 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
86 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
87 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
88 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
89 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
90 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
92 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
93 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
94 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
95 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
96 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
97 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
98 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
99 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
100 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
101 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
102 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
103 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
104 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
105 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
106 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
107 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
109 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
111 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
112 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
113 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
114 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
115 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
116 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
117 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
118 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
119 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
120 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
123 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
125 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
126 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
127 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
128 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
129 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
130 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
131 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
133 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
134 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
136 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
137 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
138 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
139 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
140 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
142 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
144 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
145 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
146 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
148 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
149 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
150 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
151 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
153 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
154 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
155 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
157 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
158 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
159 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
160 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
161 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
162 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
164 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
165 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
166 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
167 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
169 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
170 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
171 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
172 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
173 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
175 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
176 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
177 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
178 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
179 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
181 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
182 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
183 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
184 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
186 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
187 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
188 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
189 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
192 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
194 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
196 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
197 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
198 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
199 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
200 Closes: #459868, #581011
201 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
202 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
203 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
204 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
206 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
207 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
208 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
209 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
211 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
212 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
213 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
214 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
216 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
217 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
218 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
219 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
221 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
222 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
223 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
224 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
225 Closes: #501930, #593909
226 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
227 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
228 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
229 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
231 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
232 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
233 machine. (Closes: #591857)
234 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
235 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
236 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
237 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
238 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
239 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
240 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
241 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
242 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
243 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
245 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
246 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
247 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
248 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
249 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
250 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
251 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
252 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
253 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
254 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
255 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
256 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
257 than the version in oldstable.
258 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
259 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
260 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
261 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
262 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
263 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
264 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
265 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
266 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
267 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
268 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
269 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
270 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
271 package. (Closes: #609160)
273 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
275 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
277 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
278 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
279 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
280 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
281 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
283 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
284 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
285 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
286 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
288 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
289 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
290 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
291 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
293 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
294 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
295 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
296 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
297 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
298 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
299 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
300 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
301 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
303 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
304 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
305 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
306 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
308 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
309 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
310 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
311 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
313 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
314 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
315 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
316 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
318 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
319 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
320 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
321 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
323 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
324 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
325 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
326 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
327 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
329 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
330 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
331 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
332 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
333 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
335 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
336 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
337 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
338 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
340 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
341 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
342 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
343 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
345 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
346 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
347 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
348 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
350 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
351 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
352 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
353 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
355 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
356 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
357 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
358 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
360 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
361 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
362 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
363 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
365 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
367 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
368 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
369 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
370 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
371 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
372 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
373 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
374 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
375 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
377 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
378 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
379 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
380 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
381 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
382 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
384 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
386 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
389 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
392 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
395 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
396 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
397 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
398 and distribution license' (three times).
399 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
400 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
401 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
402 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
403 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
405 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
407 Proposed by Santiago Vila
408 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
409 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
410 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
411 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
415 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
416 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
417 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
418 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
420 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
421 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
422 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
423 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
424 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
425 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
427 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
428 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
429 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
430 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
432 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
433 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
434 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
435 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
436 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
438 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
439 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
440 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
441 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
442 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
444 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
445 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
446 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
447 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
448 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
450 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
451 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
452 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
453 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
455 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
456 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
457 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
458 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
459 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
461 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
462 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
463 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
464 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
466 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
467 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
468 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
469 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
471 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
472 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
473 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
474 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
475 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
477 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
478 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
479 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
480 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
482 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
483 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
484 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
485 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
486 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
488 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
489 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
490 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
491 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
493 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
494 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
495 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
496 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
497 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
498 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
499 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
500 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
501 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
502 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
503 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
504 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
505 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
506 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
507 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
508 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
509 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
510 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
511 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
512 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
513 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
514 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
515 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
516 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
517 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
518 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
519 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
520 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
521 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
522 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
523 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
524 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
526 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
528 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
530 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
533 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
534 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
536 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
537 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
541 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
544 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
545 Wording: Steve Langasek.
546 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
547 Seconded: Julien Cristau
548 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
551 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
552 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
553 Seconded: Russ Allbery
554 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
557 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
558 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
559 Seconded: Russ Allbery
561 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
562 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
563 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
564 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
565 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
566 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
567 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
568 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
569 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
571 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
572 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
573 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
574 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
575 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
576 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
577 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
578 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
579 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
580 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
581 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
582 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
583 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
584 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
585 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
586 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
588 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
589 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
590 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
591 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
592 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
594 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
597 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
598 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
599 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
600 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
601 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
602 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
605 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
607 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
609 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
610 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
611 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
612 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
614 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
615 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
616 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
617 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
619 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
620 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
621 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
622 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
624 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
625 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
626 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
627 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
628 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
629 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
631 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
632 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
633 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
634 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
635 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
637 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
638 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
639 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
640 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
642 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
643 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
644 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
645 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
647 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
648 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
649 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
650 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
652 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
653 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
654 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
655 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
657 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
658 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
659 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
660 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
662 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
663 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
664 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
665 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
666 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
667 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
668 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
669 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
670 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
671 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
672 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
673 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
674 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
675 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
676 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
678 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
679 Source field descriptions.
680 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
681 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
682 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
683 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
684 description says otherwise.
686 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
688 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
691 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
692 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
693 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
694 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
695 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
696 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
698 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
699 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
700 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
701 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
703 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
704 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
705 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
706 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
708 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
709 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
710 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
711 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
713 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
714 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
715 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
716 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
720 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
721 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
722 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
723 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
724 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
726 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
727 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
728 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
729 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
731 * Add myself to Uploaders.
734 * Add myself to Uploaders.
735 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
737 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
738 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
739 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
741 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
743 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
745 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
746 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
747 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
748 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
750 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
751 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
752 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
753 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
755 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
756 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
757 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
758 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
760 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
761 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
762 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
763 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
765 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
766 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
767 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
768 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
770 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
771 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
772 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
773 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
775 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
776 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
777 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
778 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
780 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
781 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
782 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
783 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
785 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
786 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
787 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
788 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
790 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
791 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
792 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
793 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
795 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
796 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
797 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
798 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
799 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
801 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
802 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
803 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
804 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
805 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
806 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
807 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
808 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
809 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
810 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
811 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
812 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
813 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
814 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
815 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
816 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
817 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
818 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
819 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
820 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
821 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
822 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
823 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
824 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
825 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
826 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
827 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
828 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
829 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
830 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
832 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
833 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
834 links was completed long ago.
835 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
837 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
839 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
841 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
842 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
844 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
846 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
848 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
849 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
850 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
851 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
852 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
853 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
854 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
855 Millan (Closes: #209008).
856 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
857 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
859 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
861 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
863 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
864 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
865 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
866 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
867 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
868 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
869 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
871 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
872 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
873 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
874 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
876 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
877 Küster (Closes: #403391).
878 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
879 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
880 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
881 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
882 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
883 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
884 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
885 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
886 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
887 Closes: #186700, #458910
888 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
889 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
890 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
892 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
893 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
894 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
895 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
896 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
897 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
898 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
899 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
901 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
902 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
904 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
905 * Add an md5sums control file.
906 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
907 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
908 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
909 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
910 currently part of policy.
911 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
912 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
913 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
916 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
918 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
920 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
921 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
922 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
923 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
924 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
925 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
926 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
927 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
928 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
929 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
930 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
931 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
932 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
933 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
934 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
935 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
937 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
939 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
940 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
941 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
943 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
944 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
945 list?" (Closes: #412634).
946 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
947 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
948 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
949 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
950 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
951 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
952 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
953 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
954 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
955 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
956 debconf specification.
957 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
958 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
960 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
962 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
964 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
965 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
966 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
967 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
968 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
970 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
972 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
973 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
974 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
975 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
976 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
978 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
979 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
980 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
981 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
982 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
983 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
984 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
985 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
986 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
987 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
988 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
989 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
990 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
991 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
992 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
993 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
995 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
997 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
998 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
999 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1000 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
1001 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
1002 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
1003 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
1004 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1006 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1008 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1011 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1012 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1013 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1014 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1015 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1016 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1018 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1019 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1020 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1021 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1022 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1023 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1024 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1025 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1026 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1027 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1029 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1030 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1031 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1032 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1033 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1034 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1036 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1038 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1041 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1042 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1043 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1045 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1046 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1048 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1050 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1053 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1054 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1055 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1056 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1057 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1058 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1059 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1060 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1061 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1063 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1064 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1065 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1066 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1067 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1068 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1069 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1070 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1071 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1072 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1073 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1076 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1078 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1080 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1081 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1082 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1083 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1084 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1085 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1086 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1087 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1088 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1089 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1090 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1091 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1092 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1093 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1094 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1095 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1096 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1097 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1098 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1099 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1100 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1101 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1102 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1103 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1104 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1105 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1106 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1107 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1109 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1110 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1111 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1112 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1113 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1114 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1115 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1116 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1117 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1118 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1119 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1120 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1121 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1122 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1123 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1124 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1126 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1127 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1129 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1130 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1131 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1132 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1133 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1134 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1135 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1136 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1137 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1138 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1139 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1141 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1143 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1147 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1148 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1149 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1150 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1151 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1152 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1153 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1154 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1155 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1156 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1157 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1158 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1160 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1161 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1162 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1163 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1164 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1165 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1166 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1167 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1168 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1169 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1170 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1171 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1172 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1173 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1174 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1175 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1176 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1177 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1178 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1181 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1183 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1186 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1187 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1188 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1190 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1191 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1192 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1193 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1195 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1197 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1201 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1202 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1203 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1204 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1205 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1206 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1207 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1208 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1209 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1211 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1212 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1213 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1215 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1216 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1217 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1218 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1219 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1220 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1221 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1223 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1224 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1225 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1226 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1228 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1229 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1230 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1231 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1232 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1233 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1234 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1235 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1237 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1238 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1239 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1240 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1241 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1242 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1243 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1244 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1245 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1246 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1247 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1248 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1249 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1250 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1251 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1252 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1253 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1255 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1257 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1261 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1262 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1263 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1264 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1265 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1266 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1267 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1268 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1270 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1271 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1272 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1273 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1274 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1275 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1276 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1277 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1278 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1279 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1280 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1281 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1282 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1283 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1284 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1285 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1286 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1288 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1289 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1290 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1293 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1294 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1295 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1297 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1298 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1299 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1300 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1301 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1302 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1304 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1305 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1307 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1308 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1309 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1310 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1311 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1312 Closes: #185943, #237049
1314 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1316 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1322 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1323 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1324 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1325 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1326 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1327 running. closes: Bug#187250
1328 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1329 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1330 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1331 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1332 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1333 user closes: Bug#176506
1335 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1337 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1341 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1342 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1343 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1344 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1345 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1346 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1347 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1348 deb-building toolchain.
1349 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1350 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1351 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1352 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1353 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1354 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1355 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1356 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1357 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1358 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1359 sections about changelog files.
1361 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1362 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1363 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1364 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1365 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1366 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1368 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1369 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1370 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1371 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1372 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1373 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1374 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1375 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1376 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1377 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1378 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1379 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1380 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1381 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1382 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1383 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1384 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1385 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1386 for the restructuring
1388 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1390 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1395 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1396 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1397 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1398 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1399 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1400 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1402 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1403 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1404 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1405 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1406 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1407 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1408 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1410 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1411 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1412 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1413 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1415 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1417 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1421 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1422 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1423 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1424 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1425 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1427 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1428 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1429 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1430 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1432 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1433 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1434 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1435 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1436 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1437 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1438 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1439 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1440 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1441 offtopic stuff, too.
1442 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1443 script should start it, closes: #60979
1444 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1445 "should", closes: #170019
1446 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1447 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1448 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1449 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1450 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1451 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1452 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1453 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1456 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1458 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1462 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1463 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1464 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1465 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1466 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1467 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1468 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1469 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1471 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1472 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1473 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1474 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1475 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1476 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1477 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1478 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1479 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1481 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1482 file, closes: Bug#65764
1484 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1486 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1488 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1489 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1490 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1491 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1492 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1493 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1494 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1495 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1496 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1497 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1498 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1499 details. closes: Bug#133030
1500 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1501 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1502 parts of Bug#161455.
1504 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1506 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1509 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1510 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1511 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1512 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1513 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1514 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1515 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1516 not. closes: Bug#139820
1517 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1518 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1519 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1520 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1521 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1522 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1523 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1524 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1525 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1526 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1528 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1530 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1531 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1532 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1533 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1534 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1535 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1536 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1537 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1538 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1539 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1540 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1541 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1542 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1543 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1544 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1545 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1546 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1547 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1548 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1549 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1551 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1552 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1553 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1554 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1555 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1556 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1557 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1559 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1560 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1561 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1562 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1563 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1564 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1565 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1566 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1567 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1569 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1571 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1574 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1575 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1576 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1577 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1578 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1579 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1580 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1581 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1582 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1583 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1584 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1585 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1586 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1587 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1588 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1589 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1590 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1591 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1592 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1593 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1594 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1595 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1597 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1599 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1601 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1602 medium, high, emergency.
1603 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1604 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1605 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1606 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1607 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1610 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1611 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1612 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1614 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1615 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1616 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1617 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1618 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1619 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1620 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1623 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1625 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1628 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1629 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1630 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1632 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1633 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1634 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1635 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1636 debian/rules to do this
1637 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1638 patches are incorporated upstream
1639 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1640 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1641 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1642 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1643 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1644 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1646 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1647 system closes: Bug#91249
1648 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1649 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1650 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1651 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1652 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1653 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1654 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1655 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1656 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1657 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1658 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1659 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1660 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1662 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1664 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1667 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1668 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1669 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1671 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1672 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1673 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1675 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1678 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1680 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1683 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1684 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1685 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1686 package for the time being
1687 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1688 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1689 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1690 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1691 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1692 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1693 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1694 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1695 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1696 Build-Depends arch syntax
1697 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1699 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1700 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1702 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1703 from policy maintenance duties.
1704 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1705 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1707 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1709 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1713 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1715 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1717 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1718 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1719 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1720 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1721 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1722 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1723 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1724 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1725 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1726 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1727 minor version number for this
1728 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1729 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1730 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1731 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1732 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1733 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1734 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1735 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1736 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1738 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1740 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1743 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1744 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1745 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1746 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1748 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1750 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1751 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1752 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1753 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1754 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1755 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1756 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1757 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1758 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1759 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1760 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1761 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1762 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1763 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1764 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1765 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1768 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1770 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1773 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1775 * Document the Enhances relationship
1776 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1777 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1778 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1779 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1780 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1781 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1783 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1785 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1786 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1787 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1788 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1790 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1791 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1792 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1793 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1794 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1796 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1798 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1801 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1802 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1804 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1805 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1806 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1807 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1808 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1809 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1810 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1811 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1812 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1814 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1816 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1818 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1820 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1821 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1822 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1823 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1824 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1825 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1826 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1827 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1828 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1829 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1830 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1831 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1832 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1833 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1834 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1835 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1836 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1837 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1838 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1839 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1840 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1841 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1843 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1844 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1846 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1848 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1850 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1851 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1852 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1853 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1854 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1855 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1856 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1857 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1858 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1859 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1860 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1861 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1862 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1863 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1864 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1865 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1866 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1867 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1868 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1869 list closes: Bug#53756
1870 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1871 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1872 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1873 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1874 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1875 policy closes: Bug#53760
1876 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1877 policy closes: Bug#53761
1878 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1879 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1880 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1881 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1882 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1883 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1884 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1885 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1886 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1887 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1888 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1890 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1891 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1892 to install with older fileutils.
1893 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1894 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1895 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1896 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1898 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1899 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1901 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1903 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1905 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1906 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1908 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1910 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1913 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1915 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1918 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1921 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1923 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1925 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1927 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1929 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1930 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1932 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1934 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1937 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1938 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1939 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1940 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1941 directoried (closes: #41547)
1942 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1943 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1944 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1945 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1946 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1947 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1948 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1949 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1950 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1951 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1952 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1954 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1955 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1956 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1957 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1958 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1959 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1960 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1962 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1963 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1964 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1965 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1967 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1969 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1971 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1972 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1974 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1976 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1979 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1981 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1983 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1986 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1988 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1989 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1990 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1991 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1992 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1993 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1994 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1995 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1996 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1997 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
1998 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
1999 this closes: Bug#38612
2000 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
2001 before. closes: Bug#40864
2003 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2005 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2008 officially uploaded.
2009 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2011 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2012 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2013 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2015 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2016 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2017 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2018 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2019 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2020 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2022 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2023 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2024 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2026 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2028 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2029 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2030 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2031 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2032 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2034 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2036 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2039 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2040 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2041 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2042 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2043 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2044 there). closes: Bug#34233
2045 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2046 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2047 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2048 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2049 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2051 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2053 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2055 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2056 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2057 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2058 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2061 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2062 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2063 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2064 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2065 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2068 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2069 number. closes: BUG#25911
2071 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2072 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2073 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2074 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2075 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2076 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2078 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2079 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2080 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2083 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2084 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2085 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2087 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2088 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2089 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2090 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2092 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2093 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2094 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2096 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2098 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2099 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2100 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2101 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2102 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2103 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2104 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2105 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2108 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2110 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2111 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2114 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2116 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2118 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2120 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2122 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2125 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2126 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2127 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2128 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2129 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2130 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2131 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2133 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2134 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2136 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2138 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2140 * non-maintainer release
2141 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2142 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2144 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2145 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2146 * no content changes
2147 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2149 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2151 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2155 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2157 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2159 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2161 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2162 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2163 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2165 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2166 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2168 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2169 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2170 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2171 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2173 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2174 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2175 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2176 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2177 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2178 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2179 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2181 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2182 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2183 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2186 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2187 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2188 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2190 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2191 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2192 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2194 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2195 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2197 * New version numbering scheme:
2199 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2200 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2201 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2204 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2205 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2206 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2207 differ between the manuals.
2209 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2210 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2211 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2212 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2214 * Packaging changes:
2216 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2217 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2219 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2221 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2223 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2227 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2228 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2229 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2231 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2232 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2235 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2236 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2237 file extension as the referenced file
2239 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2240 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2242 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2243 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2244 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2245 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2248 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2249 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2250 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2252 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2253 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2254 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2255 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2258 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2259 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2262 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2263 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2264 reasonable default configuration
2266 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2267 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2268 by all news servers and clients
2270 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2271 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2272 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2273 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2274 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2276 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2277 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2280 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2282 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2283 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2285 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2288 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2289 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2291 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2292 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2294 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2296 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2298 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2301 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2302 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2303 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2305 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2307 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2308 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2309 * Don't use debstd anymore
2311 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2313 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2316 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2317 contrib/non-free policy
2318 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2319 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2320 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2321 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2322 - new section about `Daemons'
2323 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2324 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2325 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2326 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2327 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2328 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2329 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2330 * SGML source code included in package
2331 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2333 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2335 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2337 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2338 - completely reworked structure
2339 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2340 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2341 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2342 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2343 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2344 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2345 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2346 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2347 - mention "orphaned packages"
2348 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2349 distributions' policy
2350 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2351 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2352 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2353 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2354 - added section about arch spec strings
2355 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2356 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2357 - added section about "menus"
2358 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2359 the new documentation policy soon
2360 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2361 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2363 - added section about editors and pagers
2364 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2365 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2366 - added section about device files
2367 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2368 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2369 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2371 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2372 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2373 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2374 - Added new section about obsolete names
2375 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2376 * Fixed package's description
2378 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2380 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2382 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2384 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2386 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2388 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2389 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2390 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2391 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2393 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2395 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2397 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2398 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2399 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2401 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2402 and upload it "byhand" too.
2404 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2406 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2410 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2411 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2412 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2413 functionality must not have the same name.
2414 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2415 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2416 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2417 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2418 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2419 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2420 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2422 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2423 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2424 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2425 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2426 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2427 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2428 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2429 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2432 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2434 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2436 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2438 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2439 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2440 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2441 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2442 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2445 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2447 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2449 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2451 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2452 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2453 description of deb file format.
2454 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2455 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2457 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2459 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2460 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2462 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2464 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2466 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2467 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2468 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2469 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2470 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2471 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2472 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2473 packages in section on Procedure
2474 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2475 a package maintainer
2476 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2477 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2478 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2480 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2481 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2482 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2483 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2484 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2485 on various shlib files
2486 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2487 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2488 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2490 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2492 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2494 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2495 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2496 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2498 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2499 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2500 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2501 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2502 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2504 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2506 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2508 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2510 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2512 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2513 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2514 compatibility go in contrib.
2516 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2517 instructions in policy manual.
2518 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2521 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2523 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2525 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2526 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2527 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2528 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2530 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2531 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2534 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2536 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2538 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2539 * More detail about changelog format names.
2541 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2542 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2546 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2548 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2550 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2552 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2554 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2556 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2558 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2560 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2561 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2562 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2564 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2566 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2568 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2570 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2572 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2576 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100