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 * Clearly state that "yes" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed
21 and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)
22 * Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to
23 reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam
24 Morris. (Closes: #658009)
25 * Fix the legal notice in copyright-format to not refer to a nonexistent
27 * Embed the Debian Policy version and build date in the debconf
28 specification and the copyright-format document. We'll make
29 non-normative changes without updating other version numbers, and it's
30 good to know which version one is looking at.
31 * Fix some whitespace issues in the debconf specification articleinfo.
32 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
33 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
34 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
35 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
36 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
37 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
39 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
40 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
41 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
42 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
44 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
45 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
46 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
48 * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0, and in the process
49 add the license information for the documents other than Policy itself
50 and the FHS. Note the implication of the GPL source code requirement
51 for distributing generated versions of the Policy documents.
53 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:07:42 -0800
55 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
58 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
59 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
60 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
61 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
62 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
63 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
64 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
65 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
66 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
67 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
68 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
69 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
70 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
71 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
73 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
74 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
75 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
76 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
77 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
79 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
80 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
81 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
82 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
83 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
84 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
86 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
87 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
88 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
89 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
91 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
92 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
93 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
94 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
95 Closes: #620870, #532120
96 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
97 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
98 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
99 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
100 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
102 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
103 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
104 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
105 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
106 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
108 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
109 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
110 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
111 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
112 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
114 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
115 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
116 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
117 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
118 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
119 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
120 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
121 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
122 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
123 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
124 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
125 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
126 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
127 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
128 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
129 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
131 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
133 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
134 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
135 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
136 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
137 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
138 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
139 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
140 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
141 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
142 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
145 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
147 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
148 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
149 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
150 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
151 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
152 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
153 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
155 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
156 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
158 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
159 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
160 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
161 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
162 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
164 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
166 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
167 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
168 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
170 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
171 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
172 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
173 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
175 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
176 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
177 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
179 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
180 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
181 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
182 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
183 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
184 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
186 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
187 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
188 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
189 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
191 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
192 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
193 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
194 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
195 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
197 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
198 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
199 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
200 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
201 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
203 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
204 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
205 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
206 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
208 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
209 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
210 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
211 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
214 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
216 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
218 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
219 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
220 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
221 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
222 Closes: #459868, #581011
223 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
224 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
225 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
226 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
228 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
229 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
230 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
231 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
233 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
234 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
235 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
236 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
238 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
239 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
240 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
241 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
243 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
244 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
245 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
246 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
247 Closes: #501930, #593909
248 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
249 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
250 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
251 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
253 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
254 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
255 machine. (Closes: #591857)
256 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
257 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
258 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
259 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
260 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
261 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
262 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
263 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
264 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
265 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
267 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
268 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
269 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
270 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
271 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
272 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
273 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
274 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
275 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
276 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
277 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
278 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
279 than the version in oldstable.
280 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
281 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
282 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
283 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
284 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
285 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
286 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
287 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
288 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
289 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
290 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
291 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
292 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
293 package. (Closes: #609160)
295 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
297 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
299 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
300 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
301 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
302 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
303 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
305 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
306 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
307 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
308 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
310 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
311 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
312 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
313 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
315 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
316 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
317 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
318 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
319 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
320 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
321 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
322 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
323 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
325 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
326 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
327 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
328 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
330 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
331 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
332 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
333 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
335 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
336 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
337 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
338 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
340 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
341 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
342 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
343 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
345 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
346 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
347 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
348 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
349 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
351 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
352 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
353 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
354 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
355 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
357 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
358 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
359 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
360 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
362 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
363 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
364 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
365 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
367 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
368 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
369 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
370 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
372 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
373 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
374 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
375 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
377 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
378 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
379 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
380 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
382 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
383 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
384 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
385 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
387 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
389 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
390 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
391 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
392 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
393 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
394 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
395 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
396 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
397 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
399 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
400 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
401 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
402 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
403 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
404 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
406 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
408 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
411 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
414 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
417 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
418 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
419 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
420 and distribution license' (three times).
421 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
422 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
423 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
424 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
425 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
427 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
429 Proposed by Santiago Vila
430 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
431 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
432 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
433 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
437 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
438 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
439 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
440 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
442 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
443 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
444 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
445 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
446 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
447 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
449 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
450 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
451 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
452 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
454 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
455 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
456 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
457 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
458 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
460 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
461 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
462 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
463 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
464 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
466 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
467 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
468 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
469 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
470 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
472 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
473 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
474 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
475 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
477 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
478 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
479 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
480 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
481 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
483 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
484 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
485 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
486 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
488 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
489 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
490 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
491 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
493 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
494 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
495 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
496 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
497 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
499 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
500 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
501 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
502 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
504 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
505 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
506 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
507 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
508 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
510 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
511 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
512 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
513 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
515 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
516 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
517 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
518 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
519 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
520 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
521 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
522 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
523 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
524 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
525 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
526 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
527 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
528 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
529 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
530 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
531 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
532 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
533 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
534 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
535 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
536 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
537 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
538 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
539 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
540 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
541 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
542 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
543 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
544 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
545 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
546 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
548 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
550 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
552 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
555 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
556 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
558 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
559 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
563 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
566 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
567 Wording: Steve Langasek.
568 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
569 Seconded: Julien Cristau
570 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
573 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
574 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
575 Seconded: Russ Allbery
576 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
579 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
580 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
581 Seconded: Russ Allbery
583 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
584 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
585 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
586 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
587 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
588 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
589 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
590 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
591 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
593 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
594 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
595 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
596 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
597 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
598 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
599 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
600 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
601 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
602 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
603 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
604 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
605 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
606 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
607 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
608 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
610 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
611 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
612 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
613 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
614 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
616 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
619 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
620 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
621 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
622 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
623 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
624 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
627 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
629 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
631 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
632 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
633 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
634 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
636 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
637 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
638 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
639 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
641 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
642 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
643 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
644 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
646 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
647 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
648 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
649 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
650 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
651 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
653 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
654 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
655 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
656 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
657 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
659 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
660 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
661 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
662 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
664 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
665 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
666 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
667 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
669 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
670 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
671 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
672 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
674 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
675 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
676 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
677 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
679 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
680 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
681 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
682 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
684 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
685 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
686 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
687 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
688 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
689 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
690 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
691 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
692 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
693 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
694 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
695 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
696 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
697 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
698 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
700 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
701 Source field descriptions.
702 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
703 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
704 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
705 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
706 description says otherwise.
708 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
710 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
713 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
714 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
715 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
716 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
717 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
718 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
720 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
721 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
722 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
723 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
725 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
726 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
727 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
728 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
730 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
731 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
732 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
733 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
735 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
736 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
737 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
738 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
742 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
743 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
744 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
745 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
746 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
748 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
749 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
750 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
751 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
753 * Add myself to Uploaders.
756 * Add myself to Uploaders.
757 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
759 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
760 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
761 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
763 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
765 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
767 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
768 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
769 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
770 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
772 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
773 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
774 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
775 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
777 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
778 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
779 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
780 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
782 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
783 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
784 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
785 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
787 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
788 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
789 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
790 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
792 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
793 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
794 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
795 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
797 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
798 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
799 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
800 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
802 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
803 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
804 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
805 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
807 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
808 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
809 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
810 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
812 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
813 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
814 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
815 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
817 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
818 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
819 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
820 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
821 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
823 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
824 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
825 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
826 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
827 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
828 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
829 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
830 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
831 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
832 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
833 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
834 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
835 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
836 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
837 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
838 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
839 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
840 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
841 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
842 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
843 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
844 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
845 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
846 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
847 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
848 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
849 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
850 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
851 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
852 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
854 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
855 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
856 links was completed long ago.
857 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
859 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
861 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
863 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
864 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
866 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
868 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
870 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
871 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
872 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
873 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
874 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
875 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
876 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
877 Millan (Closes: #209008).
878 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
879 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
881 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
883 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
885 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
886 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
887 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
888 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
889 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
890 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
891 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
893 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
894 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
895 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
896 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
898 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
899 Küster (Closes: #403391).
900 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
901 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
902 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
903 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
904 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
905 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
906 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
907 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
908 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
909 Closes: #186700, #458910
910 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
911 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
912 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
914 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
915 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
916 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
917 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
918 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
919 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
920 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
921 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
923 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
924 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
926 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
927 * Add an md5sums control file.
928 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
929 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
930 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
931 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
932 currently part of policy.
933 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
934 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
935 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
938 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
940 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
942 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
943 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
944 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
945 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
946 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
947 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
948 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
949 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
950 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
951 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
952 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
953 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
954 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
955 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
956 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
957 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
959 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
961 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
962 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
963 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
965 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
966 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
967 list?" (Closes: #412634).
968 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
969 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
970 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
971 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
972 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
973 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
974 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
975 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
976 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
977 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
978 debconf specification.
979 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
980 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
982 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
984 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
986 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
987 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
988 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
989 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
990 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
992 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
994 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
995 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
996 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
997 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
998 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1000 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
1001 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
1002 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
1003 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
1004 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
1005 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
1006 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
1007 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
1008 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
1009 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
1010 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
1011 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
1012 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
1013 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
1014 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
1015 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1017 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1019 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
1020 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
1021 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1022 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
1023 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
1024 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
1025 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
1026 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1028 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1030 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1033 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1034 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1035 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1036 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1037 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1038 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1040 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1041 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1042 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1043 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1044 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1045 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1046 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1047 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1048 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1049 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1051 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1052 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1053 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1054 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1055 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1056 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1058 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1060 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1063 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1064 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1065 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1067 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1068 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1070 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1072 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1075 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1076 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1077 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1078 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1079 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1080 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1081 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1082 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1083 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1085 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1086 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1087 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1088 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1089 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1090 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1091 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1092 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1093 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1094 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1095 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1098 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1100 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1103 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1104 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1105 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1106 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1107 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1108 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1109 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1110 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1111 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1112 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1113 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1114 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1115 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1116 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1117 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1118 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1119 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1120 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1121 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1122 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1123 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1124 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1125 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1126 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1127 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1128 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1129 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1131 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1132 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1133 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1134 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1135 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1136 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1137 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1138 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1139 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1140 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1141 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1142 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1143 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1144 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1145 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1146 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1148 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1149 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1151 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1152 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1153 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1154 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1155 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1156 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1157 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1158 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1159 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1160 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1161 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1163 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1165 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1168 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1169 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1170 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1171 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1172 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1173 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1174 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1175 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1176 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1177 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1178 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1179 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1180 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1182 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1183 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1184 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1185 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1186 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1187 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1188 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1189 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1190 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1191 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1192 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1193 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1194 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1195 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1196 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1197 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1198 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1199 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1200 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1203 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1205 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1208 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1209 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1210 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1212 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1213 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1214 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1215 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1217 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1219 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1222 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1223 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1224 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1225 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1226 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1227 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1228 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1229 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1230 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1231 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1233 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1234 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1235 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1237 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1238 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1239 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1240 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1241 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1242 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1243 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1245 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1246 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1247 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1248 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1250 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1251 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1252 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1253 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1254 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1255 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1256 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1257 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1259 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1260 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1261 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1262 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1263 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1264 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1265 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1266 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1267 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1268 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1269 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1270 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1271 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1272 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1273 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1274 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1275 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1277 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1279 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1283 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1284 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1285 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1286 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1287 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1288 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1289 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1290 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1292 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1293 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1294 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1295 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1296 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1297 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1298 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1299 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1300 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1301 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1302 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1303 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1304 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1305 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1306 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1307 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1308 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1310 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1311 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1312 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1315 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1316 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1317 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1319 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1320 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1321 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1322 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1323 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1324 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1326 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1327 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1329 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1330 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1331 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1332 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1333 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1334 Closes: #185943, #237049
1336 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1338 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1344 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1345 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1346 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1347 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1348 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1349 running. closes: Bug#187250
1350 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1351 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1352 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1353 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1354 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1355 user closes: Bug#176506
1357 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1359 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1363 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1364 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1365 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1366 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1367 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1368 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1369 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1370 deb-building toolchain.
1371 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1372 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1373 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1374 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1375 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1376 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1377 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1378 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1379 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1380 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1381 sections about changelog files.
1383 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1384 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1385 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1386 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1387 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1388 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1390 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1391 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1392 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1393 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1394 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1395 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1396 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1397 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1398 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1399 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1400 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1401 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1402 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1403 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1404 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1405 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1406 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1407 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1408 for the restructuring
1410 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1412 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1417 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1418 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1419 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1420 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1421 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1422 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1424 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1425 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1426 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1427 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1428 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1429 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1430 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1432 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1433 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1434 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1435 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1437 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1439 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1443 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1444 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1445 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1446 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1447 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1449 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1450 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1451 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1452 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1454 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1455 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1456 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1457 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1458 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1459 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1460 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1461 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1462 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1463 offtopic stuff, too.
1464 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1465 script should start it, closes: #60979
1466 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1467 "should", closes: #170019
1468 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1469 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1470 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1471 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1472 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1473 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1474 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1475 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1478 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1480 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1484 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1485 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1486 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1487 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1488 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1489 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1490 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1491 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1493 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1494 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1495 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1496 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1497 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1498 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1499 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1500 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1501 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1503 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1504 file, closes: Bug#65764
1506 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1508 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1510 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1511 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1512 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1513 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1514 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1515 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1516 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1517 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1518 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1519 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1520 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1521 details. closes: Bug#133030
1522 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1523 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1524 parts of Bug#161455.
1526 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1528 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1531 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1532 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1533 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1534 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1535 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1536 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1537 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1538 not. closes: Bug#139820
1539 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1540 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1541 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1542 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1543 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1544 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1545 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1546 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1547 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1548 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1550 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1552 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1553 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1554 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1555 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1556 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1557 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1558 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1559 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1560 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1561 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1562 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1563 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1564 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1565 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1566 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1567 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1568 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1569 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1570 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1571 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1573 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1574 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1575 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1576 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1577 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1578 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1579 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1581 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1582 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1583 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1584 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1585 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1586 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1587 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1588 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1589 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1591 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1593 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1596 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1597 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1598 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1599 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1600 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1601 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1602 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1603 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1604 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1605 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1606 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1607 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1608 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1609 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1610 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1611 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1612 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1613 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1614 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1615 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1616 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1617 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1619 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1621 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1623 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1624 medium, high, emergency.
1625 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1626 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1627 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1628 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1629 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1632 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1633 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1634 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1636 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1637 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1638 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1639 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1640 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1641 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1642 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1645 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1647 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1650 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1651 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1652 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1654 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1655 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1656 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1657 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1658 debian/rules to do this
1659 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1660 patches are incorporated upstream
1661 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1662 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1663 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1664 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1665 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1666 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1668 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1669 system closes: Bug#91249
1670 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1671 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1672 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1673 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1674 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1675 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1676 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1677 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1678 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1679 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1680 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1681 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1682 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1684 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1686 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1689 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1690 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1691 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1693 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1694 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1695 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1697 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1700 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1702 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1705 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1706 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1707 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1708 package for the time being
1709 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1710 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1711 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1712 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1713 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1714 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1715 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1716 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1717 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1718 Build-Depends arch syntax
1719 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1721 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1722 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1724 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1725 from policy maintenance duties.
1726 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1727 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1729 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1731 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1733 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1735 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1737 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1740 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1741 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1742 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1743 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1744 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1745 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1746 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1747 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1748 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1749 minor version number for this
1750 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1751 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1752 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1753 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1754 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1755 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1756 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1757 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1758 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1760 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1762 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1765 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1766 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1767 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1768 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1770 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1772 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1773 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1774 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1775 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1776 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1777 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1778 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1779 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1780 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1781 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1782 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1783 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1784 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1785 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1786 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1787 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1790 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1792 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1795 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1797 * Document the Enhances relationship
1798 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1799 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1800 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1801 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1802 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1803 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1805 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1807 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1808 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1809 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1810 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1812 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1813 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1814 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1815 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1816 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1818 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1820 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1823 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1824 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1826 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1827 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1828 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1829 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1830 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1831 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1832 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1833 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1834 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1836 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1838 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1840 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1843 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1844 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1845 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1846 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1847 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1848 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1849 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1850 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1851 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1852 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1853 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1854 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1855 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1856 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1857 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1858 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1859 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1860 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1861 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1862 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1863 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1865 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1866 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1868 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1870 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1872 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1873 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1874 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1875 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1876 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1877 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1878 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1879 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1880 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1881 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1882 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1883 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1884 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1885 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1886 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1887 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1888 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1889 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1890 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1891 list closes: Bug#53756
1892 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1893 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1894 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1895 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1896 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1897 policy closes: Bug#53760
1898 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1899 policy closes: Bug#53761
1900 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1901 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1902 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1903 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1904 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1905 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1906 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1907 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1908 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1909 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1910 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1912 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1913 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1914 to install with older fileutils.
1915 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1916 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1917 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1918 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1920 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1921 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1923 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1925 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1928 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1930 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1932 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1935 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1937 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1940 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1943 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1945 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1947 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1949 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1952 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1954 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1956 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1959 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1960 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1961 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1962 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1963 directoried (closes: #41547)
1964 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1965 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1966 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1967 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1968 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1969 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1970 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1971 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1972 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1973 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1974 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1976 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1977 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1978 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1979 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1980 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1981 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1982 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1984 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1985 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1986 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1987 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1989 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1991 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1993 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1994 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1996 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1998 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
2001 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
2003 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
2005 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * A few typos and omissions corrected
2008 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
2010 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
2011 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
2012 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
2013 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
2014 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
2015 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
2016 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
2017 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
2018 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
2019 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
2020 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
2021 this closes: Bug#38612
2022 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
2023 before. closes: Bug#40864
2025 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2027 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2030 officially uploaded.
2031 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2033 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2034 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2035 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2037 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2038 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2039 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2040 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2041 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2042 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2044 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2045 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2046 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2048 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2050 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2051 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2052 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2053 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2054 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2056 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2058 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2061 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2062 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2063 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2064 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2065 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2066 there). closes: Bug#34233
2067 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2068 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2069 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2070 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2071 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2073 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2075 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2078 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2079 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2080 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2083 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2084 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2085 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2086 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2087 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2090 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2091 number. closes: BUG#25911
2093 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2094 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2095 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2096 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2097 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2098 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2100 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2101 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2102 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2105 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2106 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2107 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2109 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2110 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2111 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2112 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2114 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2115 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2116 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2118 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2120 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2121 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2122 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2123 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2124 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2125 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2126 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2127 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2130 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2132 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2133 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2136 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2138 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2142 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2144 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2147 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2148 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2149 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2150 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2151 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2152 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2153 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2155 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2156 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2158 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2160 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2162 * non-maintainer release
2163 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2164 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2166 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2167 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2168 * no content changes
2169 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2171 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2173 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2177 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2179 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2181 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2183 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2184 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2185 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2187 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2188 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2190 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2191 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2192 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2193 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2195 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2196 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2197 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2198 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2199 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2200 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2201 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2203 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2204 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2205 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2208 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2209 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2210 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2212 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2213 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2214 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2216 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2217 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2219 * New version numbering scheme:
2221 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2222 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2223 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2226 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2227 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2228 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2229 differ between the manuals.
2231 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2232 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2233 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2234 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2236 * Packaging changes:
2238 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2239 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2241 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2243 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2245 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2249 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2250 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2251 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2253 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2254 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2257 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2258 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2259 file extension as the referenced file
2261 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2262 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2264 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2265 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2266 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2267 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2270 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2271 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2272 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2274 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2275 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2276 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2277 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2280 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2281 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2284 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2285 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2286 reasonable default configuration
2288 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2289 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2290 by all news servers and clients
2292 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2293 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2294 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2295 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2296 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2298 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2299 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2302 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2304 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2305 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2307 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2310 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2311 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2313 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2314 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2316 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2318 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2320 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2322 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2323 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2324 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2325 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2327 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2329 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2330 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2331 * Don't use debstd anymore
2333 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2335 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2337 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2338 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2339 contrib/non-free policy
2340 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2341 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2342 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2343 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2344 - new section about `Daemons'
2345 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2346 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2347 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2348 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2349 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2350 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2351 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2352 * SGML source code included in package
2353 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2355 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2357 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2360 - completely reworked structure
2361 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2362 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2363 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2364 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2365 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2366 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2367 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2368 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2369 - mention "orphaned packages"
2370 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2371 distributions' policy
2372 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2373 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2374 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2375 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2376 - added section about arch spec strings
2377 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2378 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2379 - added section about "menus"
2380 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2381 the new documentation policy soon
2382 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2383 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2385 - added section about editors and pagers
2386 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2387 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2388 - added section about device files
2389 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2390 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2391 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2393 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2394 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2395 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2396 - Added new section about obsolete names
2397 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2398 * Fixed package's description
2400 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2402 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2404 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2406 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2408 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2410 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2411 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2412 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2413 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2415 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2417 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2419 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2420 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2421 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2423 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2424 and upload it "byhand" too.
2426 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2428 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2431 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2432 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2433 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2434 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2435 functionality must not have the same name.
2436 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2437 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2438 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2439 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2440 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2441 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2442 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2444 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2445 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2446 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2447 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2448 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2449 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2450 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2451 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2454 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2456 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2458 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2460 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2461 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2462 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2463 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2464 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2467 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2469 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2471 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2473 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2474 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2475 description of deb file format.
2476 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2477 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2479 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2481 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2482 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2484 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2486 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2488 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2489 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2490 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2491 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2492 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2493 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2494 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2495 packages in section on Procedure
2496 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2497 a package maintainer
2498 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2499 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2500 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2502 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2503 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2504 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2505 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2506 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2507 on various shlib files
2508 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2509 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2510 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2512 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2514 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2516 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2517 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2518 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2520 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2521 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2522 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2523 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2524 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2526 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2528 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2530 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2532 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2534 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2535 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2536 compatibility go in contrib.
2538 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2539 instructions in policy manual.
2540 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2543 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2545 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2547 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2548 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2549 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2550 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2552 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2553 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2556 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2558 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2560 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2561 * More detail about changelog format names.
2563 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2564 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2568 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2570 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2572 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2574 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2576 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2578 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2580 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2582 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2583 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2584 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2586 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2588 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2590 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2592 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2594 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2598 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100