1 debian-policy (3.9.5.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Policy: Document the Package-List field.
4 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
5 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
8 * Policy: DM-Upload-Allowed is now obsolete
9 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
10 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
11 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
12 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
14 * Policy: Checksums-{Sha1,Sha256} are now mandatory
15 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
16 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
17 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
19 * Policy: Requirements for udebs are not well documented yet
20 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
21 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
22 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
23 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
24 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
26 * Policy: install-info is run by a dpkg trigger.
27 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
28 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
29 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
31 * Policy: Stop recommending to serve HTML documents from /usr/share/doc.
32 Wording: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>
33 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
34 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
36 * Policy: File names encoded in UTF-8. ASCII preferred and mandatory in PATH.
37 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
38 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
39 Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
41 * Policy: Document the Dgit field for Debian Source Control files.
42 Wording: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
43 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
44 Seconded: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
45 Seconded: Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox@debian.org>
47 * Policy: Remove the exception to the FHS for the /selinux directory.
48 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
49 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
50 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
52 * Policy: on upgrades, recommend removing obsolete unchanged conf. files.
53 Wording: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
54 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
55 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
57 * Policy: Control data fields must not start with a hyphen character.
58 Wording: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
59 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
60 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
62 * debconf_spec: Document the 'escape' capability.
63 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
64 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
65 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
67 * virtual-package-names-list: removed mp3-decoder and mp3-encoder.
68 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
69 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
70 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
72 * Clean outdated mentions of dpkg commands in appendix. Thanks, Guillem Jover
73 * Remove outdated mention of dselect documentation.
74 Closes: #700574. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
75 * Update dak reference from old katie name.
76 Closes: #700536. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
77 * Fix typo in 8.6.4. Thanks, Raúl Benencia. (Closes: #691352)
78 * Fix typo in 8.6.4.1. Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>.
79 * Added a warning in appendix G about diverting conffiles.
80 Closes: #703022. Thanks, Torsten Jerzembeck.
81 * List build-arch and build-indep with the other required targets in 4.9.
82 Closes: #704657. Thanks, Philipp Hahn.
83 * Replaced non-standard names of dpkg states by normalised ones.
85 * Clarify what is meant by "compressed" in section 10.5. (Closes: #676784)
87 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:32:46 -0700
89 debian-policy (3.9.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
91 * build-arch and build-indep are now mandatory targets in debian/rules,
92 implementing the Technical Committee ruling in #629385. Wording
93 review by Jonathan Nieder, Jakub Wilk, and Roger Leigh.
95 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding tasks.
96 Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #670429)
97 * Policy: Copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8
98 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
99 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
100 Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
101 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
103 * Policy: Prohibit deprecated < and > relations
104 Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
105 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
106 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
108 * Policy: Document the Built-Using field
109 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
110 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
111 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
113 * Policy: Document the Vcs-* fields
114 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
115 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
116 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
117 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
118 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
120 * Policy: Document restrictions on the use of /run for wheezy
121 Wording: Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
122 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
123 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
125 * Policy: Rewrite shared library dependency policy to document symbols
126 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
127 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
128 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
129 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
131 * Policy: Document generic and upstart-specific init system requirements
132 Wording: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
133 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
134 Seconded: Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
136 * Policy: Rely on triggers instead of calling update-mime
137 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
138 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
139 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
142 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:35:36 -0700
144 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
146 * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source
147 package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)
148 * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.
149 Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)
150 and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and
152 * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking
153 whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending
154 dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)
155 * Remove the ambiguous word "installed" when requiring that the location
156 of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)
157 * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not
158 contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)
159 * Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided
160 (currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist
161 or perform the equivalent actions. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some
162 of the wording. (Closes: #601839)
163 * Clearly state that "yes" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed
164 and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)
165 * Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to
166 reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam
167 Morris. (Closes: #658009)
168 * Fix the legal notice in copyright-format to not refer to a nonexistent
170 * Embed the Debian Policy version and build date in the debconf
171 specification and the copyright-format document. We'll make
172 non-normative changes without updating other version numbers, and it's
173 good to know which version one is looking at.
174 * Fix some whitespace issues in the debconf specification articleinfo.
175 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
176 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
177 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
178 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
179 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
180 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
182 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
183 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
184 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
185 * Expand package long description to include all documents.
186 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
188 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
189 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
190 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
192 * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0, and in the process
193 add the license information for the documents other than Policy itself
194 and the FHS. Note the implication of the GPL source code requirement
195 for distributing generated versions of the Policy documents.
197 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:02:12 -0800
199 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
202 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
203 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
204 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
205 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
206 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
207 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
208 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
209 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
210 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
211 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
212 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
213 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
214 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
215 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
217 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
218 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
219 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
220 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
221 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
223 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
224 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
225 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
226 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
227 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
228 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
230 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
231 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
232 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
233 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
235 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
236 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
237 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
238 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
239 Closes: #620870, #532120
240 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
241 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
242 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
243 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
244 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
246 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
247 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
248 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
249 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
250 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
252 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
253 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
254 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
255 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
256 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
258 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
259 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
260 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
261 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
262 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
263 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
264 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
265 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
266 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
267 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
268 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
269 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
270 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
271 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
272 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
273 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
275 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
277 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
278 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
279 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
280 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
281 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
282 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
283 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
284 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
285 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
286 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
289 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
291 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
292 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
293 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
294 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
295 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
296 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
297 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
299 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
300 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
302 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
303 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
304 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
305 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
306 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
308 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
310 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
311 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
312 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
314 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
315 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
316 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
317 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
319 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
320 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
321 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
323 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
324 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
325 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
326 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
327 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
328 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
330 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
331 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
332 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
333 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
335 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
336 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
337 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
338 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
339 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
341 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
342 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
343 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
344 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
345 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
347 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
348 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
349 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
350 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
352 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
353 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
354 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
355 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
358 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
360 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
362 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
363 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
364 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
365 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
366 Closes: #459868, #581011
367 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
368 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
369 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
370 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
372 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
373 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
374 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
375 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
377 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
378 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
379 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
380 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
382 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
383 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
384 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
385 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
387 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
388 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
389 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
390 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
391 Closes: #501930, #593909
392 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
393 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
394 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
395 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
397 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
398 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
399 machine. (Closes: #591857)
400 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
401 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
402 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
403 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
404 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
405 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
406 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
407 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
408 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
409 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
411 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
412 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
413 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
414 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
415 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
416 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
417 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
418 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
419 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
420 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
421 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
422 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
423 than the version in oldstable.
424 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
425 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
426 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
427 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
428 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
429 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
430 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
431 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
432 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
433 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
434 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
435 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
436 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
437 package. (Closes: #609160)
439 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
441 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
443 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
444 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
445 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
446 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
447 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
449 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
450 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
451 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
452 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
454 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
455 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
456 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
457 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
459 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
460 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
461 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
462 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
463 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
464 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
465 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
466 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
467 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
469 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
470 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
471 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
472 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
474 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
475 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
476 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
477 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
479 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
480 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
481 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
482 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
484 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
485 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
486 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
487 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
489 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
490 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
491 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
492 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
493 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
495 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
496 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
497 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
498 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
499 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
501 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
502 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
503 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
504 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
506 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
507 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
508 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
509 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
511 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
512 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
513 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
514 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
516 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
517 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
518 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
519 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
521 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
522 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
523 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
524 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
526 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
527 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
528 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
529 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
531 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
533 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
534 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
535 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
536 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
537 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
538 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
539 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
540 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
541 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
543 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
544 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
545 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
546 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
547 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
548 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
550 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
552 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
555 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
558 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
561 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
562 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
563 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
564 and distribution license' (three times).
565 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
566 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
567 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
568 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
569 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
571 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
573 Proposed by Santiago Vila
574 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
575 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
576 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
577 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
581 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
582 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
583 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
584 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
586 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
587 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
588 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
589 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
590 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
591 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
593 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
594 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
595 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
596 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
598 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
599 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
600 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
601 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
602 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
604 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
605 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
606 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
607 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
608 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
610 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
611 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
612 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
613 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
614 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
616 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
617 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
618 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
619 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
621 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
622 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
623 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
624 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
625 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
627 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
628 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
629 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
630 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
632 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
633 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
634 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
635 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
637 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
638 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
639 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
640 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
641 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
643 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
644 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
645 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
646 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
648 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
649 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
650 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
651 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
652 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
654 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
655 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
656 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
657 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
659 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
660 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
661 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
662 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
663 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
664 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
665 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
666 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
667 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
668 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
669 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
670 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
671 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
672 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
673 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
674 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
675 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
676 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
677 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
678 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
679 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
680 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
681 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
682 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
683 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
684 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
685 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
686 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
687 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
688 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
689 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
690 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
692 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
694 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
696 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
699 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
700 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
702 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
703 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
707 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
710 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
711 Wording: Steve Langasek.
712 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
713 Seconded: Julien Cristau
714 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
717 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
718 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
719 Seconded: Russ Allbery
720 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
723 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
724 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
725 Seconded: Russ Allbery
727 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
728 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
729 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
730 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
731 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
732 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
733 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
734 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
735 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
737 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
738 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
739 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
740 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
741 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
742 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
743 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
744 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
745 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
746 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
747 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
748 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
749 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
750 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
751 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
752 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
754 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
755 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
756 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
757 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
758 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
760 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
763 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
764 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
765 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
766 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
767 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
768 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
771 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
773 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
775 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
776 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
777 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
778 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
780 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
781 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
782 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
783 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
785 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
786 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
787 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
788 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
790 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
791 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
792 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
793 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
794 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
795 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
797 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
798 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
799 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
800 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
801 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
803 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
804 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
805 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
806 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
808 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
809 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
810 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
811 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
813 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
814 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
815 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
816 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
818 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
819 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
820 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
821 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
823 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
824 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
825 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
826 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
828 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
829 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
830 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
831 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
832 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
833 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
834 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
835 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
836 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
837 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
838 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
839 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
840 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
841 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
842 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
844 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
845 Source field descriptions.
846 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
847 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
848 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
849 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
850 description says otherwise.
852 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
854 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
857 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
858 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
859 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
860 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
861 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
862 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
864 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
865 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
866 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
867 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
869 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
870 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
871 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
872 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
874 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
875 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
876 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
877 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
879 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
880 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
881 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
882 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
886 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
887 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
888 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
889 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
890 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
892 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
893 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
894 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
895 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
897 * Add myself to Uploaders.
900 * Add myself to Uploaders.
901 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
903 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
904 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
905 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
907 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
909 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
911 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
912 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
913 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
914 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
916 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
917 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
918 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
919 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
921 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
922 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
923 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
924 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
926 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
927 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
928 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
929 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
931 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
932 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
933 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
934 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
936 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
937 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
938 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
939 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
941 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
942 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
943 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
944 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
946 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
947 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
948 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
949 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
951 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
952 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
953 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
954 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
956 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
957 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
958 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
959 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
961 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
962 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
963 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
964 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
965 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
967 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
968 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
969 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
970 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
971 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
972 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
973 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
974 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
975 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
976 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
977 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
978 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
979 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
980 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
981 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
982 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
983 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
984 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
985 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
986 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
987 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
988 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
989 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
990 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
991 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
992 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
993 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
994 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
995 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
996 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
998 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
999 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
1000 links was completed long ago.
1001 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
1003 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
1005 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1007 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
1008 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
1010 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
1012 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
1015 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
1016 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
1017 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
1018 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
1019 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
1020 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
1021 Millan (Closes: #209008).
1022 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
1023 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
1025 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
1027 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
1029 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
1030 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
1031 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
1032 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
1033 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
1034 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
1035 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
1037 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
1038 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
1039 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
1040 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
1042 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
1043 Küster (Closes: #403391).
1044 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
1045 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
1046 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
1047 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
1048 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
1049 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1050 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1051 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
1052 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1053 Closes: #186700, #458910
1054 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
1055 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1056 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1058 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
1059 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
1060 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
1061 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
1062 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
1063 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
1064 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
1065 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
1067 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
1068 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
1070 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
1071 * Add an md5sums control file.
1072 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
1073 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
1074 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
1075 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
1076 currently part of policy.
1077 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
1078 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
1079 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
1082 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
1084 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1086 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
1087 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1088 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
1089 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
1090 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
1091 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
1092 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
1093 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
1094 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
1095 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
1096 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
1097 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
1098 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
1099 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
1100 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
1101 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
1103 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
1105 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
1106 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
1107 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
1109 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
1110 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
1111 list?" (Closes: #412634).
1112 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
1113 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
1114 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
1115 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
1116 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
1117 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
1118 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
1119 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
1120 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
1121 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
1122 debconf specification.
1123 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
1124 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
1126 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
1128 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1130 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
1131 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
1132 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
1133 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
1134 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
1136 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
1138 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
1139 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
1140 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
1141 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
1142 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1144 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
1145 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
1146 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
1147 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
1148 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
1149 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
1150 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
1151 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
1152 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
1153 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
1154 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
1155 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
1156 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
1157 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
1158 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
1159 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1161 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1163 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
1164 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
1165 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1166 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
1167 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
1168 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
1169 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
1170 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1172 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1174 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1176 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1177 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1178 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1179 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1180 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1181 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1182 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1184 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1185 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1186 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1187 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1188 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1189 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1190 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1191 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1192 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1193 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1195 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1196 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1197 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1198 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1199 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1200 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1202 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1204 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1207 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1208 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1209 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1211 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1212 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1214 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1216 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1219 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1220 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1221 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1222 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1223 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1224 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1225 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1226 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1227 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1229 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1230 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1231 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1232 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1233 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1234 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1235 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1236 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1237 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1238 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1239 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1242 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1244 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1247 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1248 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1249 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1250 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1251 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1252 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1253 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1254 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1255 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1256 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1257 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1258 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1259 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1260 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1261 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1262 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1263 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1264 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1265 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1266 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1267 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1268 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1269 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1270 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1271 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1272 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1273 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1275 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1276 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1277 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1278 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1279 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1280 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1281 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1282 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1283 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1284 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1285 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1286 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1287 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1288 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1289 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1290 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1292 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1293 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1295 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1296 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1297 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1298 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1299 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1300 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1301 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1302 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1303 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1304 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1305 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1307 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1309 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1313 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1314 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1315 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1316 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1317 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1318 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1319 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1320 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1321 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1322 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1323 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1324 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1326 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1327 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1328 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1329 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1330 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1331 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1332 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1333 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1334 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1335 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1336 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1337 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1338 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1339 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1340 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1341 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1342 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1343 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1344 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1347 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1349 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1352 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1353 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1354 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1356 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1357 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1358 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1359 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1361 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1363 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1367 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1368 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1369 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1370 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1371 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1372 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1373 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1374 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1375 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1377 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1378 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1379 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1381 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1382 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1383 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1384 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1385 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1386 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1387 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1389 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1390 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1391 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1392 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1394 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1395 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1396 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1397 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1398 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1399 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1400 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1401 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1403 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1404 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1405 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1406 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1407 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1408 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1409 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1410 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1411 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1412 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1413 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1414 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1415 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1416 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1417 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1418 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1419 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1421 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1423 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1426 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1427 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1428 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1429 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1430 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1431 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1432 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1433 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1434 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1436 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1437 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1438 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1439 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1440 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1441 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1442 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1443 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1444 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1445 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1446 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1447 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1448 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1449 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1450 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1451 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1452 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1454 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1455 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1456 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1459 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1460 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1461 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1463 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1464 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1465 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1466 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1467 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1468 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1470 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1471 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1473 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1474 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1475 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1476 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1477 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1478 Closes: #185943, #237049
1480 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1482 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1488 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1489 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1490 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1491 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1492 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1493 running. closes: Bug#187250
1494 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1495 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1496 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1497 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1498 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1499 user closes: Bug#176506
1501 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1503 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1507 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1508 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1509 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1510 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1511 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1512 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1513 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1514 deb-building toolchain.
1515 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1516 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1517 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1518 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1519 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1520 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1521 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1522 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1523 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1524 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1525 sections about changelog files.
1527 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1528 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1529 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1530 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1531 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1532 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1534 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1535 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1536 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1537 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1538 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1539 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1540 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1541 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1542 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1543 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1544 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1545 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1546 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1547 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1548 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1549 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1550 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1551 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1552 for the restructuring
1554 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1556 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1561 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1562 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1563 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1564 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1565 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1566 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1568 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1569 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1570 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1571 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1572 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1573 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1574 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1576 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1577 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1578 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1579 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1581 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1583 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1587 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1588 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1589 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1590 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1591 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1593 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1594 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1595 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1596 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1598 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1599 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1600 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1601 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1602 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1603 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1604 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1605 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1606 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1607 offtopic stuff, too.
1608 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1609 script should start it, closes: #60979
1610 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1611 "should", closes: #170019
1612 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1613 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1614 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1615 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1616 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1617 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1618 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1619 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1622 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1624 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1628 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1629 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1630 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1631 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1632 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1633 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1634 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1635 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1637 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1638 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1639 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1640 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1641 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1642 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1643 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1644 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1645 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1647 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1648 file, closes: Bug#65764
1650 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1652 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1655 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1656 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1657 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1658 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1659 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1660 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1661 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1662 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1663 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1664 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1665 details. closes: Bug#133030
1666 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1667 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1668 parts of Bug#161455.
1670 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1672 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1675 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1676 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1677 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1678 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1679 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1680 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1681 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1682 not. closes: Bug#139820
1683 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1684 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1685 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1686 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1687 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1688 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1689 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1690 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1691 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1692 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1694 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1696 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1697 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1698 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1699 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1700 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1701 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1702 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1703 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1704 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1705 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1706 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1707 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1708 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1709 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1710 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1711 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1712 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1713 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1714 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1715 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1717 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1718 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1719 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1720 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1721 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1722 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1723 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1725 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1726 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1727 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1728 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1729 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1730 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1731 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1732 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1733 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1735 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1737 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1740 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1741 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1742 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1743 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1744 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1745 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1746 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1747 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1748 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1749 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1750 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1751 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1752 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1753 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1754 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1755 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1756 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1757 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1758 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1759 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1760 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1761 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1763 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1765 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1767 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1768 medium, high, emergency.
1769 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1770 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1771 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1772 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1773 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1776 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1777 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1778 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1780 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1781 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1782 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1783 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1784 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1785 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1786 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1789 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1791 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1794 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1795 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1796 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1798 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1799 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1800 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1801 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1802 debian/rules to do this
1803 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1804 patches are incorporated upstream
1805 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1806 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1807 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1808 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1809 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1810 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1812 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1813 system closes: Bug#91249
1814 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1815 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1816 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1817 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1818 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1819 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1820 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1821 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1822 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1823 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1824 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1825 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1826 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1828 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1830 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1833 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1834 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1835 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1837 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1838 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1839 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1841 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1844 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1846 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1849 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1850 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1851 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1852 package for the time being
1853 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1854 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1855 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1856 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1857 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1858 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1859 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1860 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1861 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1862 Build-Depends arch syntax
1863 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1865 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1866 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1868 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1869 from policy maintenance duties.
1870 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1871 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1873 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1875 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1879 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1881 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1883 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1884 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1885 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1886 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1887 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1888 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1889 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1890 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1891 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1892 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1893 minor version number for this
1894 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1895 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1896 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1897 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1898 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1899 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1900 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1901 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1902 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1904 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1906 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1909 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1910 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1911 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1912 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1914 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1916 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1917 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1918 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1919 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1920 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1921 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1922 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1923 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1924 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1925 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1926 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1927 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1928 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1929 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1930 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1931 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1934 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1936 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1939 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1941 * Document the Enhances relationship
1942 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1943 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1944 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1945 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1946 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1947 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1949 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1951 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1952 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1953 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1954 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1956 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1957 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1958 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1959 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1960 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1962 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1964 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1967 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1968 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1970 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1971 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1972 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1973 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1974 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1975 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1976 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1977 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1978 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1980 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1982 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1984 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1987 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1988 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1989 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1990 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1991 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1992 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1993 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1994 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1995 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1996 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1997 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1998 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1999 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
2000 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
2001 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
2002 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
2003 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
2004 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
2005 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
2006 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
2007 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
2009 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
2010 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
2012 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
2014 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
2017 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
2018 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
2019 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
2020 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
2021 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
2022 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
2023 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
2024 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
2025 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
2026 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
2027 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
2028 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
2029 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
2030 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
2031 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
2032 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
2033 alternative closes: Bug#53755
2034 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
2035 list closes: Bug#53756
2036 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
2037 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
2038 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
2039 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
2040 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
2041 policy closes: Bug#53760
2042 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
2043 policy closes: Bug#53761
2044 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
2045 that use X closes: Bug#53762
2046 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
2047 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
2048 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
2049 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
2050 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
2051 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
2052 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
2053 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
2054 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
2056 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
2057 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
2058 to install with older fileutils.
2059 * Installed FHS version 2.1
2060 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
2061 * Added FHS details to copyright file
2062 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
2064 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
2065 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
2067 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
2069 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
2072 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
2074 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
2076 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2078 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
2079 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
2081 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
2084 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
2087 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
2089 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
2091 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
2093 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
2096 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
2098 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
2100 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
2103 #45561, #42447, #48570)
2104 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
2105 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
2106 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
2107 directoried (closes: #41547)
2108 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
2109 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
2110 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
2111 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
2112 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
2113 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
2114 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
2115 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
2116 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
2117 package criteria (closes: #45318)
2118 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
2120 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
2121 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
2122 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
2123 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
2124 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
2125 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
2126 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
2128 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
2129 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
2130 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
2131 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
2133 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
2135 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
2137 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
2138 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
2140 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
2142 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2144 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
2145 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
2147 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
2149 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * A few typos and omissions corrected
2152 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
2154 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
2155 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
2156 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
2157 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
2158 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
2159 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
2160 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
2161 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
2162 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
2163 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
2164 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
2165 this closes: Bug#38612
2166 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
2167 before. closes: Bug#40864
2169 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2171 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2174 officially uploaded.
2175 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2177 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2178 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2179 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2181 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2182 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2183 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2184 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2185 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2186 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2188 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2189 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2190 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2192 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2194 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2195 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2196 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2197 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2198 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2200 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2202 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2204 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2205 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2206 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2207 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2208 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2209 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2210 there). closes: Bug#34233
2211 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2212 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2213 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2214 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2215 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2217 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2219 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2221 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2222 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2223 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2224 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2227 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2228 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2229 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2230 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2231 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2234 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2235 number. closes: BUG#25911
2237 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2238 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2239 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2240 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2241 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2242 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2244 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2245 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2246 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2249 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2250 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2251 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2253 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2254 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2255 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2256 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2258 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2259 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2260 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2262 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2264 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2265 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2266 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2267 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2268 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2269 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2270 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2271 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2274 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2276 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2277 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2280 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2282 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2286 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2288 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2291 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2292 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2293 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2294 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2295 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2296 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2297 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2299 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2300 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2302 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2304 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2306 * non-maintainer release
2307 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2308 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2310 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2311 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2312 * no content changes
2313 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2315 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2317 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2321 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2323 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2325 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2327 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2328 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2329 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2331 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2332 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2334 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2335 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2336 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2337 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2339 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2340 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2341 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2342 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2343 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2344 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2345 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2347 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2348 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2349 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2352 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2353 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2354 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2356 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2357 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2358 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2360 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2361 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2363 * New version numbering scheme:
2365 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2366 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2367 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2370 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2371 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2372 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2373 differ between the manuals.
2375 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2376 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2377 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2378 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2380 * Packaging changes:
2382 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2383 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2385 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2387 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2389 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2393 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2394 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2395 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2397 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2398 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2401 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2402 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2403 file extension as the referenced file
2405 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2406 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2408 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2409 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2410 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2411 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2414 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2415 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2416 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2418 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2419 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2420 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2421 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2424 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2425 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2428 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2429 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2430 reasonable default configuration
2432 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2433 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2434 by all news servers and clients
2436 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2437 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2438 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2439 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2440 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2442 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2443 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2446 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2448 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2449 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2451 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2454 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2455 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2457 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2458 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2460 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2462 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2464 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2466 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2467 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2468 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2469 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2471 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2473 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2474 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2475 * Don't use debstd anymore
2477 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2479 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2482 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2483 contrib/non-free policy
2484 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2485 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2486 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2487 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2488 - new section about `Daemons'
2489 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2490 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2491 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2492 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2493 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2494 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2495 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2496 * SGML source code included in package
2497 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2499 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2501 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2504 - completely reworked structure
2505 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2506 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2507 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2508 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2509 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2510 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2511 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2512 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2513 - mention "orphaned packages"
2514 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2515 distributions' policy
2516 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2517 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2518 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2519 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2520 - added section about arch spec strings
2521 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2522 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2523 - added section about "menus"
2524 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2525 the new documentation policy soon
2526 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2527 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2529 - added section about editors and pagers
2530 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2531 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2532 - added section about device files
2533 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2534 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2535 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2537 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2538 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2539 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2540 - Added new section about obsolete names
2541 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2542 * Fixed package's description
2544 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2546 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2548 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2550 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2552 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2554 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2555 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2556 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2557 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2559 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2561 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2563 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2564 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2565 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2567 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2568 and upload it "byhand" too.
2570 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2572 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2575 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2576 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2577 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2578 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2579 functionality must not have the same name.
2580 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2581 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2582 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2583 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2584 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2585 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2586 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2588 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2589 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2590 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2591 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2592 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2593 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2594 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2595 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2598 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2600 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2602 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2604 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2605 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2606 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2607 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2608 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2611 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2613 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2615 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2617 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2618 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2619 description of deb file format.
2620 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2621 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2623 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2625 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2626 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2628 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2630 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2632 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2633 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2634 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2635 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2636 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2637 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2638 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2639 packages in section on Procedure
2640 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2641 a package maintainer
2642 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2643 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2644 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2646 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2647 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2648 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2649 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2650 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2651 on various shlib files
2652 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2653 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2654 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2656 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2658 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2660 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2661 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2662 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2664 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2665 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2666 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2667 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2668 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2670 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2672 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2674 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2676 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2678 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2679 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2680 compatibility go in contrib.
2682 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2683 instructions in policy manual.
2684 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2687 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2689 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2691 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2692 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2693 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2694 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2696 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2697 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2700 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2702 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2704 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2705 * More detail about changelog format names.
2707 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2708 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2712 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2714 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2716 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2718 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2720 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2722 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2724 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2726 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2727 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2728 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2730 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2732 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2734 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2736 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2738 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2742 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100