1 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source
4 package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)
5 * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.
6 Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)
7 and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and
9 * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking
10 whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending
11 dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)
12 * Remove the ambiguous word "installed" when requiring that the location
13 of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)
14 * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not
15 contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)
16 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
17 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
18 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
19 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
20 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
21 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
23 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
24 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
25 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
26 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
28 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
29 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
30 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
33 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:07:42 -0800
35 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
38 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
39 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
40 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
41 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
42 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
43 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
44 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
45 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
46 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
47 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
48 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
49 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
50 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
51 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
53 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
54 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
55 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
56 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
57 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
59 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
60 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
61 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
62 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
63 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
64 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
66 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
67 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
68 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
69 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
71 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
72 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
73 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
74 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
75 Closes: #620870, #532120
76 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
77 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
78 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
79 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
80 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
82 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
83 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
84 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
85 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
86 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
88 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
89 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
90 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
91 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
92 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
94 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
95 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
96 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
97 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
98 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
99 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
100 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
101 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
102 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
103 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
104 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
105 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
106 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
107 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
108 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
109 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
111 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
113 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
114 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
115 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
116 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
117 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
118 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
119 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
120 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
121 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
122 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
125 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
127 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
128 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
129 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
130 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
131 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
132 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
133 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
135 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
136 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
138 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
139 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
140 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
141 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
142 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
144 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
146 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
147 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
148 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
150 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
151 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
152 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
153 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
155 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
156 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
157 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
159 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
160 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
161 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
162 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
163 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
164 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
166 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
167 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
168 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
169 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
171 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
172 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
173 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
174 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
175 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
177 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
178 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
179 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
180 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
181 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
183 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
184 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
185 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
186 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
188 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
189 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
190 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
191 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
194 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
196 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
198 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
199 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
200 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
201 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
202 Closes: #459868, #581011
203 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
204 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
205 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
206 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
208 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
209 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
210 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
211 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
213 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
214 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
215 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
216 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
218 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
219 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
220 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
221 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
223 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
224 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
225 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
226 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
227 Closes: #501930, #593909
228 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
229 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
230 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
231 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
233 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
234 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
235 machine. (Closes: #591857)
236 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
237 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
238 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
239 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
240 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
241 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
242 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
243 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
244 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
245 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
247 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
248 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
249 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
250 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
251 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
252 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
253 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
254 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
255 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
256 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
257 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
258 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
259 than the version in oldstable.
260 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
261 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
262 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
263 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
264 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
265 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
266 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
267 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
268 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
269 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
270 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
271 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
272 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
273 package. (Closes: #609160)
275 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
277 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
279 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
280 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
281 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
282 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
283 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
285 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
286 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
287 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
288 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
290 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
291 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
292 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
293 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
295 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
296 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
297 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
298 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
299 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
300 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
301 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
302 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
303 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
305 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
306 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
307 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
308 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
310 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
311 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
312 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
313 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
315 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
316 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
317 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
318 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
320 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
321 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
322 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
323 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
325 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
326 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
327 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
328 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
329 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
331 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
332 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
333 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
334 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
335 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
337 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
338 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
339 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
340 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
342 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
343 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
344 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
345 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
347 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
348 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
349 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
350 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
352 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
353 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
354 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
355 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
357 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
358 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
359 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
360 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
362 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
363 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
364 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
365 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
367 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
369 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
370 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
371 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
372 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
373 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
374 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
375 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
376 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
377 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
379 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
380 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
381 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
382 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
383 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
384 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
386 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
388 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
391 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
394 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
397 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
398 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
399 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
400 and distribution license' (three times).
401 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
402 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
403 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
404 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
405 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
407 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
409 Proposed by Santiago Vila
410 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
411 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
412 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
413 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
417 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
418 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
419 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
420 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
422 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
423 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
424 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
425 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
426 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
427 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
429 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
430 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
431 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
432 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
434 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
435 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
436 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
437 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
438 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
440 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
441 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
442 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
443 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
444 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
446 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
447 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
448 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
449 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
450 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
452 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
453 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
454 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
455 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
457 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
458 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
459 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
460 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
461 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
463 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
464 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
465 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
466 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
468 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
469 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
470 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
471 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
473 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
474 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
475 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
476 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
477 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
479 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
480 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
481 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
482 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
484 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
485 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
486 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
487 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
488 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
490 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
491 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
492 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
493 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
495 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
496 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
497 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
498 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
499 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
500 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
501 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
502 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
503 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
504 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
505 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
506 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
507 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
508 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
509 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
510 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
511 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
512 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
513 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
514 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
515 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
516 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
517 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
518 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
519 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
520 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
521 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
522 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
523 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
524 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
525 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
526 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
528 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
530 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
532 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
535 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
536 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
538 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
539 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
543 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
546 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
547 Wording: Steve Langasek.
548 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
549 Seconded: Julien Cristau
550 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
553 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
554 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
555 Seconded: Russ Allbery
556 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
559 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
560 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
561 Seconded: Russ Allbery
563 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
564 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
565 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
566 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
567 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
568 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
569 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
570 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
571 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
573 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
574 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
575 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
576 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
577 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
578 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
579 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
580 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
581 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
582 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
583 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
584 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
585 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
586 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
587 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
588 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
590 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
591 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
592 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
593 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
594 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
596 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
599 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
600 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
601 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
602 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
603 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
604 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
607 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
609 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
611 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
612 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
613 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
614 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
616 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
617 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
618 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
619 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
621 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
622 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
623 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
624 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
626 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
627 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
628 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
629 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
630 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
631 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
633 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
634 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
635 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
636 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
637 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
639 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
640 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
641 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
642 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
644 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
645 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
646 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
647 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
649 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
650 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
651 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
652 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
654 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
655 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
656 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
657 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
659 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
660 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
661 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
662 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
664 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
665 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
666 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
667 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
668 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
669 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
670 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
671 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
672 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
673 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
674 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
675 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
676 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
677 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
678 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
680 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
681 Source field descriptions.
682 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
683 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
684 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
685 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
686 description says otherwise.
688 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
690 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
693 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
694 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
695 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
696 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
697 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
698 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
700 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
701 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
702 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
703 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
705 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
706 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
707 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
708 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
710 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
711 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
712 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
713 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
715 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
716 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
717 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
718 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
722 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
723 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
724 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
725 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
726 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
728 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
729 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
730 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
731 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
733 * Add myself to Uploaders.
736 * Add myself to Uploaders.
737 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
739 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
740 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
741 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
743 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
745 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
747 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
748 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
749 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
750 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
752 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
753 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
754 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
755 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
757 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
758 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
759 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
760 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
762 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
763 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
764 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
765 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
767 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
768 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
769 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
770 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
772 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
773 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
774 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
775 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
777 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
778 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
779 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
780 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
782 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
783 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
784 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
785 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
787 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
788 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
789 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
790 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
792 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
793 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
794 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
795 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
797 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
798 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
799 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
800 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
801 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
803 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
804 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
805 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
806 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
807 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
808 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
809 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
810 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
811 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
812 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
813 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
814 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
815 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
816 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
817 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
818 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
819 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
820 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
821 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
822 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
823 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
824 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
825 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
826 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
827 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
828 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
829 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
830 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
831 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
832 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
834 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
835 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
836 links was completed long ago.
837 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
839 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
841 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
843 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
844 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
846 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
848 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
850 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
851 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
852 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
853 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
854 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
855 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
856 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
857 Millan (Closes: #209008).
858 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
859 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
861 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
863 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
865 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
866 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
867 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
868 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
869 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
870 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
871 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
873 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
874 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
875 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
876 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
878 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
879 Küster (Closes: #403391).
880 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
881 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
882 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
883 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
884 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
885 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
886 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
887 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
888 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
889 Closes: #186700, #458910
890 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
891 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
892 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
894 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
895 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
896 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
897 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
898 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
899 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
900 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
901 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
903 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
904 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
906 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
907 * Add an md5sums control file.
908 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
909 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
910 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
911 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
912 currently part of policy.
913 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
914 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
915 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
918 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
920 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
922 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
923 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
924 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
925 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
926 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
927 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
928 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
929 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
930 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
931 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
932 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
933 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
934 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
935 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
936 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
937 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
939 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
941 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
942 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
943 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
945 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
946 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
947 list?" (Closes: #412634).
948 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
949 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
950 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
951 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
952 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
953 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
954 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
955 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
956 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
957 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
958 debconf specification.
959 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
960 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
962 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
964 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
966 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
967 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
968 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
969 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
970 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
972 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
974 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
975 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
976 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
977 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
978 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
980 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
981 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
982 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
983 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
984 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
985 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
986 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
987 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
988 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
989 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
990 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
991 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
992 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
993 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
994 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
995 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
997 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
999 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
1000 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
1001 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1002 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
1003 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
1004 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
1005 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
1006 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1008 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1010 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1013 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1014 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1015 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1016 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1017 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1018 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1020 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1021 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1022 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1023 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1024 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1025 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1026 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1027 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1028 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1029 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1031 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1032 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1033 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1034 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1035 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1036 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1038 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1040 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1043 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1044 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1045 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1047 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1048 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1050 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1052 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1055 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1056 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1057 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1058 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1059 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1060 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1061 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1062 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1063 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1065 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1066 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1067 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1068 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1069 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1070 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1071 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1072 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1073 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1074 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1075 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1078 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1080 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1082 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1083 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1084 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1085 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1086 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1087 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1088 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1089 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1090 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1091 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1092 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1093 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1094 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1095 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1096 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1097 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1098 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1099 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1100 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1101 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1102 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1103 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1104 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1105 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1106 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1107 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1108 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1109 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1111 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1112 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1113 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1114 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1115 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1116 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1117 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1118 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1119 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1120 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1121 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1122 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1123 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1124 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1125 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1126 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1128 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1129 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1131 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1132 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1133 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1134 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1135 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1136 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1137 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1138 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1139 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1140 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1141 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1143 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1145 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1148 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1149 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1150 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1151 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1152 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1153 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1154 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1155 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1156 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1157 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1158 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1159 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1160 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1162 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1163 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1164 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1165 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1166 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1167 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1168 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1169 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1170 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1171 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1172 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1173 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1174 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1175 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1176 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1177 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1178 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1179 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1180 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1183 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1185 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1188 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1189 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1190 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1192 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1193 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1194 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1195 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1197 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1199 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1202 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1203 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1204 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1205 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1206 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1207 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1208 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1209 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1210 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1211 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1213 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1214 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1215 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1217 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1218 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1219 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1220 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1221 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1222 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1223 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1225 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1226 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1227 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1228 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1230 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1231 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1232 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1233 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1234 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1235 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1236 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1237 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1239 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1240 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1241 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1242 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1243 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1244 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1245 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1246 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1247 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1248 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1249 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1250 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1251 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1252 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1253 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1254 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1255 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1257 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1259 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1262 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1263 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1264 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1265 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1266 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1267 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1268 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1269 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1270 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1272 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1273 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1274 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1275 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1276 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1277 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1278 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1279 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1280 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1281 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1282 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1283 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1284 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1285 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1286 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1287 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1288 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1290 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1291 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1292 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1295 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1296 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1297 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1299 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1300 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1301 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1302 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1303 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1304 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1306 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1307 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1309 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1310 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1311 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1312 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1313 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1314 Closes: #185943, #237049
1316 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1318 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1321 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1324 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1325 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1326 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1327 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1328 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1329 running. closes: Bug#187250
1330 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1331 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1332 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1333 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1334 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1335 user closes: Bug#176506
1337 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1339 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1342 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1343 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1344 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1345 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1346 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1347 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1348 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1349 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1350 deb-building toolchain.
1351 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1352 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1353 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1354 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1355 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1356 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1357 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1358 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1359 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1360 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1361 sections about changelog files.
1363 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1364 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1365 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1366 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1367 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1368 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1370 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1371 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1372 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1373 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1374 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1375 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1376 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1377 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1378 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1379 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1380 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1381 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1382 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1383 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1384 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1385 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1386 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1387 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1388 for the restructuring
1390 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1392 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1397 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1398 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1399 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1400 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1401 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1402 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1404 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1405 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1406 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1407 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1408 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1409 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1410 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1412 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1413 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1414 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1415 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1417 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1419 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1422 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1423 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1424 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1425 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1426 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1427 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1429 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1430 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1431 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1432 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1434 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1435 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1436 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1437 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1438 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1439 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1440 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1441 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1442 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1443 offtopic stuff, too.
1444 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1445 script should start it, closes: #60979
1446 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1447 "should", closes: #170019
1448 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1449 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1450 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1451 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1452 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1453 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1454 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1455 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1458 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1460 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1464 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1465 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1466 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1467 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1468 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1469 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1470 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1471 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1473 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1474 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1475 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1476 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1477 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1478 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1479 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1480 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1481 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1483 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1484 file, closes: Bug#65764
1486 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1488 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1491 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1492 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1493 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1494 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1495 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1496 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1497 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1498 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1499 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1500 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1501 details. closes: Bug#133030
1502 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1503 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1504 parts of Bug#161455.
1506 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1508 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1510 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1511 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1512 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1513 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1514 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1515 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1516 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1517 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1518 not. closes: Bug#139820
1519 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1520 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1521 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1522 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1523 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1524 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1525 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1526 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1527 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1528 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1530 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1532 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1533 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1534 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1535 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1536 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1537 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1538 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1539 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1540 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1541 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1542 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1543 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1544 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1545 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1546 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1547 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1548 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1549 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1550 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1551 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1553 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1554 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1555 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1556 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1557 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1558 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1559 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1561 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1562 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1563 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1564 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1565 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1566 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1567 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1568 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1569 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1571 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1573 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1576 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1577 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1578 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1579 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1580 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1581 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1582 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1583 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1584 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1585 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1586 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1587 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1588 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1589 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1590 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1591 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1592 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1593 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1594 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1595 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1596 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1597 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1599 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1601 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1604 medium, high, emergency.
1605 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1606 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1607 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1608 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1609 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1612 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1613 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1614 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1616 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1617 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1618 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1619 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1620 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1621 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1622 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1625 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1627 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1629 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1630 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1631 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1632 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1634 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1635 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1636 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1637 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1638 debian/rules to do this
1639 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1640 patches are incorporated upstream
1641 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1642 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1643 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1644 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1645 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1646 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1648 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1649 system closes: Bug#91249
1650 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1651 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1652 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1653 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1654 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1655 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1656 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1657 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1658 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1659 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1660 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1661 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1662 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1664 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1666 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1668 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1669 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1670 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1671 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1673 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1674 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1675 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1677 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1680 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1682 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1685 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1686 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1687 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1688 package for the time being
1689 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1690 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1691 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1692 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1693 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1694 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1695 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1696 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1697 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1698 Build-Depends arch syntax
1699 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1701 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1702 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1704 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1705 from policy maintenance duties.
1706 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1707 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1709 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1711 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1715 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1717 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1720 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1721 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1722 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1723 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1724 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1725 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1726 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1727 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1728 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1729 minor version number for this
1730 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1731 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1732 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1733 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1734 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1735 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1736 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1737 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1738 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1740 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1742 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1745 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1746 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1747 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1748 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1750 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1752 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1753 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1754 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1755 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1756 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1757 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1758 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1759 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1760 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1761 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1762 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1763 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1764 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1765 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1766 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1767 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1770 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1772 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1775 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1777 * Document the Enhances relationship
1778 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1779 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1780 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1781 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1782 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1783 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1785 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1787 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1788 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1789 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1790 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1792 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1793 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1794 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1795 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1796 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1798 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1800 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1803 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1804 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1806 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1807 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1808 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1809 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1810 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1811 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1812 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1813 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1814 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1816 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1818 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1820 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1823 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1824 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1825 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1826 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1827 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1828 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1829 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1830 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1831 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1832 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1833 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1834 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1835 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1836 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1837 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1838 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1839 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1840 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1841 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1842 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1843 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1845 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1846 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1848 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1850 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1853 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1854 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1855 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1856 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1857 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1858 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1859 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1860 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1861 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1862 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1863 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1864 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1865 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1866 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1867 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1868 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1869 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1870 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1871 list closes: Bug#53756
1872 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1873 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1874 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1875 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1876 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1877 policy closes: Bug#53760
1878 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
1879 policy closes: Bug#53761
1880 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
1881 that use X closes: Bug#53762
1882 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
1883 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
1884 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
1885 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
1886 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
1887 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
1888 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
1889 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
1890 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
1892 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
1893 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
1894 to install with older fileutils.
1895 * Installed FHS version 2.1
1896 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
1897 * Added FHS details to copyright file
1898 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
1900 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
1901 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
1903 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
1905 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
1908 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
1910 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
1912 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
1915 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
1917 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
1920 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1922 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
1923 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
1925 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
1927 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
1929 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
1932 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
1934 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
1936 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
1939 #45561, #42447, #48570)
1940 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
1941 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
1942 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
1943 directoried (closes: #41547)
1944 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
1945 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
1946 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
1947 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
1948 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
1949 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
1950 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
1951 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
1952 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
1953 package criteria (closes: #45318)
1954 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
1956 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
1957 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
1958 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
1959 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
1960 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
1961 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
1962 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
1964 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
1965 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
1966 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
1967 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
1969 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
1971 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
1973 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
1974 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
1976 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
1978 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
1981 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
1983 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
1985 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * A few typos and omissions corrected
1988 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
1990 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
1991 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
1992 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
1993 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
1994 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
1995 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
1996 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
1997 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
1998 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
1999 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
2000 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
2001 this closes: Bug#38612
2002 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
2003 before. closes: Bug#40864
2005 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2007 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2009 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2010 officially uploaded.
2011 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2013 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2014 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2015 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2017 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2018 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2019 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2020 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2021 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2022 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2024 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2025 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2026 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2028 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2030 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2031 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2032 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2033 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2034 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2036 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2038 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2040 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2041 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2042 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2043 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2044 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2045 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2046 there). closes: Bug#34233
2047 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2048 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2049 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2050 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2051 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2053 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2055 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2058 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2059 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2060 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2063 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2064 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2065 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2066 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2067 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2070 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2071 number. closes: BUG#25911
2073 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2074 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2075 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2076 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2077 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2078 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2080 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2081 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2082 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2085 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2086 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2087 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2089 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2090 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2091 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2092 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2094 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2095 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2096 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2098 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2100 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2101 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2102 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2103 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2104 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2105 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2106 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2107 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2110 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2112 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2113 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2116 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2118 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2122 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2124 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2127 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2128 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2129 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2130 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2131 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2132 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2133 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2135 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2136 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2138 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2140 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2142 * non-maintainer release
2143 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2144 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2146 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2147 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2148 * no content changes
2149 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2151 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2153 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2157 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2159 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2161 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2163 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2164 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2165 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2167 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2168 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2170 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2171 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2172 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2173 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2175 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2176 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2177 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2178 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2179 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2180 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2181 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2183 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2184 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2185 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2188 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2189 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2190 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2192 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2193 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2194 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2196 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2197 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2199 * New version numbering scheme:
2201 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2202 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2203 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2206 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2207 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2208 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2209 differ between the manuals.
2211 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2212 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2213 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2214 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2216 * Packaging changes:
2218 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2219 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2221 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2223 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2225 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2227 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2229 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2230 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2231 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2233 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2234 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2237 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2238 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2239 file extension as the referenced file
2241 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2242 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2244 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2245 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2246 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2247 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2250 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2251 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2252 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2254 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2255 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2256 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2257 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2260 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2261 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2264 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2265 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2266 reasonable default configuration
2268 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2269 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2270 by all news servers and clients
2272 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2273 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2274 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2275 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2276 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2278 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2279 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2282 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2284 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2285 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2287 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2290 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2291 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2293 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2294 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2296 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2298 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2300 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2302 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2303 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2304 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2305 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2307 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2309 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2310 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2311 * Don't use debstd anymore
2313 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2315 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2317 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2318 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2319 contrib/non-free policy
2320 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2321 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2322 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2323 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2324 - new section about `Daemons'
2325 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2326 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2327 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2328 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2329 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2330 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2331 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2332 * SGML source code included in package
2333 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2335 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2337 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2340 - completely reworked structure
2341 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2342 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2343 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2344 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2345 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2346 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2347 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2348 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2349 - mention "orphaned packages"
2350 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2351 distributions' policy
2352 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2353 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2354 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2355 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2356 - added section about arch spec strings
2357 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2358 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2359 - added section about "menus"
2360 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2361 the new documentation policy soon
2362 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2363 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2365 - added section about editors and pagers
2366 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2367 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2368 - added section about device files
2369 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2370 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2371 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2373 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2374 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2375 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2376 - Added new section about obsolete names
2377 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2378 * Fixed package's description
2380 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2382 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2384 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2386 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2388 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2390 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2391 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2392 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2393 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2395 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2397 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2399 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2400 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2401 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2403 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2404 and upload it "byhand" too.
2406 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2408 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2411 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2412 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2413 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2414 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2415 functionality must not have the same name.
2416 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2417 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2418 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2419 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2420 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2421 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2422 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2424 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2425 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2426 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2427 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2428 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2429 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2430 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2431 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2434 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2436 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2438 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2440 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2441 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2442 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2443 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2444 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2447 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2449 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2451 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2453 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2454 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2455 description of deb file format.
2456 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2457 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2459 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2461 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2462 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2464 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2466 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2468 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2469 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2470 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2471 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2472 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2473 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2474 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2475 packages in section on Procedure
2476 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2477 a package maintainer
2478 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2479 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2480 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2482 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2483 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2484 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2485 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2486 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2487 on various shlib files
2488 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2489 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2490 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2492 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2494 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2496 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2497 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2498 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2500 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2501 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2502 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2503 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2504 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2506 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2508 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2510 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2512 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2514 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2515 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2516 compatibility go in contrib.
2518 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2519 instructions in policy manual.
2520 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2523 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2525 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2527 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2528 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2529 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2530 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2532 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2533 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2536 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2538 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2540 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2541 * More detail about changelog format names.
2543 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2544 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2548 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2550 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2552 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2554 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2556 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2558 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2560 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2562 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2563 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2564 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2566 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2568 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2570 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2572 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2574 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2578 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100