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 * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not
15 contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)
16 * Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided
17 (currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist
18 or perform the equivalent actions. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some
19 of the wording. (Closes: #601839)
20 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
21 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
22 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
23 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
24 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
25 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
27 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
28 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
29 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
30 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
32 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
33 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
34 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
37 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:07:42 -0800
39 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
42 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
43 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
44 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
45 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
46 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
47 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
48 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
49 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
50 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
51 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
52 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
53 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
54 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
55 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
57 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
58 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
59 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
60 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
61 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
63 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
64 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
65 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
66 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
67 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
68 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
70 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
71 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
72 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
73 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
75 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
76 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
77 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
78 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
79 Closes: #620870, #532120
80 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
81 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
82 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
83 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
84 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
86 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
87 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
88 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
89 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
90 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
92 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
93 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
94 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
95 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
96 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
98 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
99 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
100 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
101 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
102 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
103 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
104 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
105 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
106 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
107 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
108 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
109 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
110 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
111 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
112 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
113 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
115 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
117 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
118 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
119 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
120 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
121 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
122 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
123 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
124 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
125 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
126 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
129 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
131 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
132 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
133 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
134 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
135 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
136 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
137 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
139 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
140 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
142 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
143 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
144 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
145 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
146 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
148 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
150 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
151 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
152 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
154 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
155 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
156 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
157 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
159 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
160 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
161 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
163 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
164 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
165 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
166 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
167 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
168 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
170 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
171 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
172 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
173 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
175 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
176 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
177 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
178 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
179 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
181 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
182 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
183 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
184 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
185 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
187 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
188 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
189 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
190 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
192 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
193 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
194 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
195 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
198 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
200 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
202 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
203 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
204 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
205 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
206 Closes: #459868, #581011
207 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
208 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
209 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
210 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
212 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
213 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
214 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
215 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
217 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
218 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
219 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
220 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
222 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
223 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
224 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
225 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
227 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
228 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
229 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
230 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
231 Closes: #501930, #593909
232 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
233 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
234 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
235 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
237 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
238 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
239 machine. (Closes: #591857)
240 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
241 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
242 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
243 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
244 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
245 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
246 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
247 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
248 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
249 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
251 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
252 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
253 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
254 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
255 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
256 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
257 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
258 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
259 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
260 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
261 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
262 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
263 than the version in oldstable.
264 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
265 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
266 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
267 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
268 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
269 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
270 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
271 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
272 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
273 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
274 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
275 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
276 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
277 package. (Closes: #609160)
279 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
281 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
283 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
284 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
285 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
286 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
287 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
289 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
290 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
291 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
292 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
294 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
295 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
296 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
297 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
299 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
300 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
301 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
302 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
303 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
304 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
305 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
306 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
307 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
309 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
310 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
311 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
312 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
314 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
315 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
316 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
317 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
319 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
320 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
321 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
322 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
324 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
325 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
326 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
327 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
329 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
330 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
331 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
332 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
333 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
335 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
336 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
337 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
338 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
339 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
341 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
342 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
343 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
344 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
346 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
347 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
348 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
349 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
351 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
352 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
353 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
354 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
356 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
357 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
358 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
359 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
361 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
362 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
363 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
364 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
366 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
367 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
368 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
369 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
371 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
373 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
374 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
375 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
376 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
377 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
378 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
379 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
380 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
381 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
383 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
384 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
385 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
386 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
387 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
388 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
390 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
392 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
395 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
398 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
401 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
402 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
403 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
404 and distribution license' (three times).
405 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
406 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
407 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
408 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
409 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
411 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
413 Proposed by Santiago Vila
414 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
415 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
416 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
417 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
421 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
422 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
423 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
424 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
426 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
427 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
428 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
429 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
430 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
431 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
433 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
434 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
435 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
436 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
438 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
439 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
440 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
441 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
442 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
444 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
445 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
446 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
447 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
448 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
450 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
451 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
452 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
453 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
454 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
456 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
457 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
458 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
459 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
461 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
462 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
463 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
464 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
465 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
467 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
468 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
469 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
470 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
472 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
473 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
474 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
475 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
477 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
478 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
479 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
480 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
481 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
483 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
484 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
485 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
486 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
488 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
489 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
490 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
491 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
492 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
494 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
495 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
496 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
497 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
499 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
500 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
501 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
502 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
503 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
504 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
505 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
506 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
507 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
508 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
509 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
510 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
511 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
512 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
513 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
514 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
515 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
516 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
517 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
518 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
519 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
520 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
521 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
522 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
523 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
524 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
525 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
526 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
527 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
528 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
529 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
530 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
532 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
534 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
536 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
539 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
540 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
542 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
543 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
547 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
550 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
551 Wording: Steve Langasek.
552 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
553 Seconded: Julien Cristau
554 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
557 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
558 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
559 Seconded: Russ Allbery
560 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
563 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
564 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
565 Seconded: Russ Allbery
567 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
568 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
569 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
570 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
571 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
572 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
573 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
574 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
575 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
577 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
578 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
579 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
580 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
581 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
582 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
583 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
584 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
585 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
586 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
587 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
588 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
589 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
590 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
591 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
592 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
594 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
595 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
596 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
597 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
598 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
600 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
603 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
604 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
605 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
606 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
607 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
608 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
611 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
613 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
615 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
616 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
617 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
618 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
620 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
621 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
622 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
623 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
625 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
626 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
627 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
628 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
630 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
631 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
632 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
633 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
634 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
635 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
637 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
638 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
639 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
640 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
641 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
643 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
644 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
645 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
646 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
648 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
649 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
650 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
651 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
653 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
654 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
655 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
656 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
658 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
659 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
660 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
661 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
663 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
664 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
665 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
666 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
668 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
669 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
670 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
671 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
672 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
673 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
674 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
675 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
676 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
677 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
678 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
679 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
680 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
681 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
682 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
684 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
685 Source field descriptions.
686 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
687 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
688 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
689 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
690 description says otherwise.
692 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
694 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
697 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
698 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
699 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
700 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
701 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
702 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
704 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
705 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
706 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
707 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
709 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
710 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
711 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
712 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
714 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
715 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
716 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
717 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
719 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
720 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
721 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
722 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
726 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
727 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
728 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
729 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
730 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
732 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
733 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
734 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
735 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
737 * Add myself to Uploaders.
740 * Add myself to Uploaders.
741 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
743 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
744 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
745 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
747 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
749 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
751 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
752 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
753 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
754 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
756 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
757 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
758 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
759 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
761 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
762 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
763 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
764 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
766 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
767 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
768 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
769 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
771 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
772 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
773 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
774 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
776 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
777 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
778 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
779 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
781 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
782 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
783 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
784 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
786 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
787 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
788 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
789 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
791 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
792 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
793 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
794 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
796 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
797 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
798 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
799 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
801 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
802 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
803 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
804 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
805 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
807 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
808 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
809 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
810 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
811 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
812 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
813 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
814 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
815 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
816 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
817 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
818 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
819 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
820 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
821 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
822 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
823 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
824 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
825 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
826 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
827 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
828 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
829 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
830 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
831 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
832 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
833 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
834 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
835 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
836 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
838 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
839 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
840 links was completed long ago.
841 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
843 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
845 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
847 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
848 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
850 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
852 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
854 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
855 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
856 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
857 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
858 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
859 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
860 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
861 Millan (Closes: #209008).
862 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
863 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
865 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
867 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
869 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
870 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
871 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
872 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
873 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
874 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
875 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
877 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
878 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
879 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
880 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
882 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
883 Küster (Closes: #403391).
884 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
885 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
886 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
887 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
888 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
889 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
890 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
891 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
892 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
893 Closes: #186700, #458910
894 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
895 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
896 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
898 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
899 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
900 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
901 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
902 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
903 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
904 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
905 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
907 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
908 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
910 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
911 * Add an md5sums control file.
912 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
913 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
914 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
915 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
916 currently part of policy.
917 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
918 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
919 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
922 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
924 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
926 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
927 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
928 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
929 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
930 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
931 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
932 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
933 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
934 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
935 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
936 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
937 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
938 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
939 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
940 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
941 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
943 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
945 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
946 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
947 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
949 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
950 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
951 list?" (Closes: #412634).
952 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
953 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
954 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
955 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
956 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
957 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
958 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
959 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
960 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
961 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
962 debconf specification.
963 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
964 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
966 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
968 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
970 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
971 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
972 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
973 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
974 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
976 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
978 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
979 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
980 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
981 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
982 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
984 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
985 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
986 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
987 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
988 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
989 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
990 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
991 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
992 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
993 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
994 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
995 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
996 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
997 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
998 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
999 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1001 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1003 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
1004 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
1005 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1006 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
1007 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
1008 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
1009 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
1010 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1012 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1014 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1016 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1017 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1018 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1019 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1020 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1021 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1022 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1024 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1025 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1026 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1027 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1028 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1029 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1030 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1031 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1032 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1033 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1035 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1036 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1037 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1038 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1039 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1040 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1042 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1044 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1047 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1048 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1049 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1051 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1052 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1054 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1056 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1059 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1060 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1061 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1062 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1063 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1064 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1065 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1066 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1067 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1069 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1070 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1071 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1072 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1073 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1074 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1075 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1076 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1077 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1078 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1079 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1082 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1084 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1086 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1087 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1088 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1089 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1090 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1091 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1092 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1093 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1094 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1095 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1096 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1097 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1098 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1099 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1100 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1101 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1102 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1103 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1104 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1105 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1106 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1107 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1108 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1109 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1110 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1111 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1112 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1113 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1115 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1116 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1117 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1118 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1119 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1120 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1121 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1122 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1123 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1124 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1125 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1126 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1127 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1128 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1129 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1130 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1132 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1133 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1135 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1136 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1137 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1138 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1139 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1140 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1141 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1142 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1143 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1144 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1145 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1147 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1149 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1153 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1154 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1155 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1156 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1157 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1158 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1159 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1160 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1161 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1162 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1163 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1164 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1166 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1167 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1168 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1169 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1170 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1171 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1172 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1173 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1174 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1175 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1176 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1177 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1178 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1179 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1180 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1181 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1182 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1183 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1184 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1187 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1189 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1192 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1193 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1194 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1196 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1197 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1198 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1199 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1201 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1203 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1207 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1208 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1209 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1210 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1211 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1212 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1213 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1214 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1215 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1217 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1218 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1219 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1221 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1222 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1223 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1224 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1225 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1226 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1227 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1229 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1230 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1231 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1232 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1234 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1235 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1236 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1237 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1238 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1239 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1240 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1241 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1243 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1244 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1245 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1246 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1247 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1248 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1249 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1250 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1251 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1252 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1253 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1254 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1255 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1256 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1257 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1258 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1259 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1261 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1263 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1266 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1267 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1268 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1269 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1270 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1271 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1272 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1273 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1274 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1276 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1277 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1278 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1279 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1280 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1281 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1282 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1283 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1284 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1285 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1286 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1287 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1288 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1289 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1290 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1291 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1292 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1294 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1295 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1296 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1299 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1300 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1301 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1303 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1304 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1305 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1306 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1307 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1308 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1310 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1311 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1313 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1314 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1315 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1316 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1317 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1318 Closes: #185943, #237049
1320 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1322 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1328 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1329 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1330 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1331 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1332 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1333 running. closes: Bug#187250
1334 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1335 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1336 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1337 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1338 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1339 user closes: Bug#176506
1341 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1343 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1347 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1348 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1349 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1350 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1351 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1352 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1353 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1354 deb-building toolchain.
1355 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1356 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1357 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1358 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1359 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1360 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1361 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1362 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1363 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1364 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1365 sections about changelog files.
1367 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1368 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1369 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1370 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1371 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1372 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1374 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1375 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1376 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1377 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1378 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1379 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1380 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1381 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1382 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1383 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1384 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1385 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1386 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1387 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1388 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1389 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1390 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1391 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1392 for the restructuring
1394 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1396 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1401 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1402 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1403 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1404 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1405 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1406 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1408 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1409 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1410 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1411 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1412 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1413 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1414 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1416 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1417 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1418 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1419 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1421 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1423 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1426 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1427 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1428 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1429 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1430 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1431 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1433 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1434 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1435 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1436 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1438 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1439 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1440 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1441 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1442 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1443 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1444 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1445 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1446 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1447 offtopic stuff, too.
1448 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1449 script should start it, closes: #60979
1450 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1451 "should", closes: #170019
1452 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1453 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1454 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1455 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1456 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1457 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1458 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1459 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1462 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1464 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1468 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1469 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1470 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1471 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1472 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1473 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1474 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1475 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1477 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1478 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1479 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1480 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1481 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1482 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1483 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1484 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1485 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1487 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1488 file, closes: Bug#65764
1490 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1492 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1495 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1496 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1497 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1498 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1499 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1500 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1501 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1502 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1503 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1504 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1505 details. closes: Bug#133030
1506 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1507 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1508 parts of Bug#161455.
1510 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1512 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1515 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1516 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1517 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1518 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1519 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1520 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1521 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1522 not. closes: Bug#139820
1523 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1524 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1525 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1526 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1527 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1528 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1529 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1530 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1531 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1532 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1534 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1536 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1537 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1538 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1539 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1540 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1541 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1542 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1543 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1544 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1545 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1546 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1547 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1548 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1549 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1550 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1551 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1552 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1553 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1554 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1555 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1557 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1558 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1559 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1560 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1561 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1562 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1563 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1565 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1566 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1567 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1568 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1569 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1570 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1571 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1572 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1573 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1575 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1577 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1580 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1581 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1582 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1583 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1584 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1585 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1586 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1587 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1588 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1589 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1590 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1591 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1592 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1593 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1594 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1595 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1596 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1597 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1598 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1599 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1600 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1601 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1603 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1605 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1608 medium, high, emergency.
1609 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1610 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1611 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1612 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1613 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1616 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1617 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1618 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1620 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1621 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1622 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1623 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1624 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1625 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1626 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1629 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1631 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1634 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1635 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1636 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1638 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1639 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1640 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1641 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1642 debian/rules to do this
1643 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1644 patches are incorporated upstream
1645 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1646 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1647 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1648 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1649 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1650 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1652 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1653 system closes: Bug#91249
1654 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1655 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1656 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1657 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1658 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1659 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1660 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1661 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1662 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1663 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1664 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1665 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1666 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1668 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1670 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1673 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1674 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1675 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1677 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1678 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1679 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1681 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1684 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1686 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1689 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1690 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1691 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1692 package for the time being
1693 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1694 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1695 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1696 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1697 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1698 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1699 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1700 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1701 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1702 Build-Depends arch syntax
1703 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1705 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1706 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1708 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1709 from policy maintenance duties.
1710 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1711 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1713 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1715 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1717 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1719 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1721 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1724 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1725 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1726 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1727 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1728 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1729 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1730 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1731 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1732 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1733 minor version number for this
1734 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1735 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1736 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1737 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1738 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1739 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1740 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1741 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1742 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1744 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1746 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1749 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1750 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1751 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1752 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1754 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1756 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1757 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1758 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1759 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1760 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1761 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1762 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1763 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1764 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1765 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1766 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1767 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1768 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1769 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1770 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1771 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1774 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1776 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1779 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1781 * Document the Enhances relationship
1782 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1783 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1784 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1785 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1786 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1787 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1789 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1791 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1792 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1793 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1794 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1796 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1797 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1798 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1799 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1800 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1802 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1804 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1807 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1808 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1810 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1811 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1812 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1813 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1814 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1815 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1816 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1817 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1818 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1820 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1822 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1824 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1827 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1828 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1829 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1830 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1831 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1832 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1833 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1834 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1835 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1836 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1837 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1838 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1839 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1840 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1841 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1842 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1843 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1844 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1845 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1846 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1847 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1849 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1850 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1852 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1854 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1857 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1858 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1859 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1860 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1861 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1862 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1863 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1864 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1865 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1866 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1867 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1868 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1869 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1870 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1871 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1872 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1873 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1874 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1875 list closes: Bug#53756
1876 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1877 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1878 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1879 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1880 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1881 policy closes: Bug#53760
1882 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1883 policy closes: Bug#53761
1884 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1885 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1886 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1887 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1888 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1889 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1890 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1891 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1892 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1893 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1894 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1896 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1897 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1898 to install with older fileutils.
1899 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1900 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1901 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1902 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1904 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1905 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1907 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1909 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1912 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1914 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1916 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1919 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1921 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1924 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1926 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1927 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1929 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1931 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1933 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1935 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1936 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1938 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1940 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1943 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1944 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1945 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1946 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1947 directoried (closes: #41547)
1948 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1949 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1950 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1951 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1952 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1953 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1954 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1955 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1956 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1957 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1958 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1960 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1961 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1962 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1963 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1964 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1965 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1966 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1968 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1969 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1970 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1971 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1973 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1975 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1977 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1978 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1980 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1982 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1985 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1987 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1989 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1992 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1994 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1995 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1996 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1997 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1998 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1999 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
2000 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
2001 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
2002 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
2003 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
2004 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
2005 this closes: Bug#38612
2006 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
2007 before. closes: Bug#40864
2009 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2011 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2013 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2014 officially uploaded.
2015 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2017 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2018 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2019 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2021 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2022 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2023 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2024 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2025 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2026 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2028 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2029 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2030 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2032 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2034 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2035 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2036 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2037 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2038 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2040 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2042 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2045 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2046 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2047 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2048 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2049 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2050 there). closes: Bug#34233
2051 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2052 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2053 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2054 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2055 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2057 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2059 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2062 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2063 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2064 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2067 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2068 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2069 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2070 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2071 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2074 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2075 number. closes: BUG#25911
2077 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2078 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2079 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2080 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2081 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2082 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2084 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2085 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2086 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2089 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2090 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2091 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2093 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2094 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2095 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2096 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2098 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2099 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2100 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2102 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2104 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2105 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2106 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2107 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2108 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2109 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2110 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2111 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2114 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2116 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2117 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2120 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2122 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2126 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2128 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2130 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2131 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2132 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2133 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2134 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2135 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2136 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2137 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2139 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2140 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2142 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2144 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2146 * non-maintainer release
2147 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2148 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2150 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2151 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2152 * no content changes
2153 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2155 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2157 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2161 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2163 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2165 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2167 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2168 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2169 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2171 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2172 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2174 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2175 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2176 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2177 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2179 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2180 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2181 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2182 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2183 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2184 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2185 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2187 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2188 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2189 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2192 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2193 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2194 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2196 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2197 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2198 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2200 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2201 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2203 * New version numbering scheme:
2205 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2206 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2207 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2210 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2211 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2212 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2213 differ between the manuals.
2215 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2216 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2217 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2218 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2220 * Packaging changes:
2222 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2223 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2225 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2227 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2229 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2233 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2234 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2235 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2237 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2238 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2241 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2242 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2243 file extension as the referenced file
2245 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2246 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2248 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2249 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2250 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2251 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2254 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2255 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2256 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2258 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2259 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2260 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2261 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2264 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2265 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2268 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2269 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2270 reasonable default configuration
2272 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2273 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2274 by all news servers and clients
2276 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2277 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2278 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2279 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2280 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2282 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2283 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2286 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2288 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2289 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2291 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2294 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2295 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2297 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2298 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2300 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2302 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2304 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2306 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2307 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2308 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2309 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2311 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2313 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2314 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2315 * Don't use debstd anymore
2317 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2319 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2322 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2323 contrib/non-free policy
2324 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2325 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2326 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2327 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2328 - new section about `Daemons'
2329 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2330 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2331 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2332 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2333 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2334 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2335 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2336 * SGML source code included in package
2337 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2339 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2341 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2344 - completely reworked structure
2345 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2346 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2347 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2348 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2349 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2350 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2351 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2352 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2353 - mention "orphaned packages"
2354 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2355 distributions' policy
2356 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2357 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2358 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2359 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2360 - added section about arch spec strings
2361 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2362 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2363 - added section about "menus"
2364 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2365 the new documentation policy soon
2366 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2367 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2369 - added section about editors and pagers
2370 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2371 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2372 - added section about device files
2373 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2374 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2375 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2377 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2378 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2379 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2380 - Added new section about obsolete names
2381 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2382 * Fixed package's description
2384 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2386 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2388 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2390 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2392 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2394 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2395 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2396 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2397 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2399 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2401 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2403 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2404 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2405 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2407 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2408 and upload it "byhand" too.
2410 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2412 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2415 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2416 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2417 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2418 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2419 functionality must not have the same name.
2420 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2421 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2422 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2423 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2424 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2425 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2426 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2428 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2429 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2430 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2431 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2432 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2433 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2434 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2435 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2438 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2440 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2442 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2444 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2445 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2446 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2447 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2448 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2451 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2453 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2455 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2457 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2458 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2459 description of deb file format.
2460 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2461 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2463 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2465 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2466 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2468 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2470 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2472 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2473 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2474 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2475 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2476 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2477 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2478 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2479 packages in section on Procedure
2480 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2481 a package maintainer
2482 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2483 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2484 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2486 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2487 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2488 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2489 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2490 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2491 on various shlib files
2492 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2493 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2494 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2496 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2498 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2500 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2501 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2502 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2504 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2505 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2506 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2507 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2508 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2510 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2512 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2514 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2516 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2518 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2519 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2520 compatibility go in contrib.
2522 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2523 instructions in policy manual.
2524 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2527 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2529 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2531 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2532 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2533 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2534 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2536 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2537 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2540 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2542 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2544 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2545 * More detail about changelog format names.
2547 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2548 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2552 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2554 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2556 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2558 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2560 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2562 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2564 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2566 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2567 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2568 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2570 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2572 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2574 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2576 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2578 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2582 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100