1 debian-policy (3.9.5.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Policy: Document the Package-List field.
4 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
5 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
8 * Policy: DM-Upload-Allowed is now obsolete
9 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
10 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
11 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
12 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
14 * Policy: Checksums-{Sha1,Sha256} are now mandatory
15 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
16 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
17 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
19 * Policy: Requirements for udebs are not well documented yet
20 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
21 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
22 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
23 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
24 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
26 * Policy: install-info is run by a dpkg trigger.
27 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
28 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
29 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
31 * Policy: Stop recommending to serve HTML documents from /usr/share/doc.
32 Wording: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>
33 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
34 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
36 * debconf_spec: Document the 'escape' capability.
37 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
38 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
39 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
41 * Clean outdated mentions of dpkg commands in appendix. Thanks, Guillem Jover
42 * Remove outdated mention of dselect documentation.
43 Closes: #700574. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
44 * Update dak reference from old katie name.
45 Closes: #700536. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
46 * Fix typo in 8.6.4. Thanks, Raúl Benencia. (Closes: #691352)
47 * Fix typo in 8.6.4.1. Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>.
48 * Added a warning in appendix G about diverting conffiles.
49 Closes: #703022. Thanks, Torsten Jerzembeck.
50 * List build-arch and build-indep with the other required targets in 4.9.
51 Closes: #704657. Thanks, Philipp Hahn.
52 * Replaced non-standard names of dpkg states by normalised ones.
54 * Clarify what is meant by "compressed" in section 10.5. (Closes: #676784)
56 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:32:46 -0700
58 debian-policy (3.9.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
60 * build-arch and build-indep are now mandatory targets in debian/rules,
61 implementing the Technical Committee ruling in #629385. Wording
62 review by Jonathan Nieder, Jakub Wilk, and Roger Leigh.
64 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding tasks.
65 Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #670429)
66 * Policy: Copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8
67 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
68 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
69 Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
70 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
72 * Policy: Prohibit deprecated < and > relations
73 Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
74 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
75 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
77 * Policy: Document the Built-Using field
78 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
79 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
80 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
82 * Policy: Document the Vcs-* fields
83 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
84 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
85 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
86 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
87 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
89 * Policy: Document restrictions on the use of /run for wheezy
90 Wording: Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
91 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
92 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
94 * Policy: Rewrite shared library dependency policy to document symbols
95 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
96 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
97 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
98 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
100 * Policy: Document generic and upstart-specific init system requirements
101 Wording: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
102 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
103 Seconded: Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
105 * Policy: Rely on triggers instead of calling update-mime
106 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
107 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
108 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
111 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:35:36 -0700
113 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
115 * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source
116 package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)
117 * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.
118 Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)
119 and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and
121 * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking
122 whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending
123 dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)
124 * Remove the ambiguous word "installed" when requiring that the location
125 of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)
126 * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not
127 contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)
128 * Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided
129 (currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist
130 or perform the equivalent actions. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some
131 of the wording. (Closes: #601839)
132 * Clearly state that "yes" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed
133 and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)
134 * Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to
135 reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam
136 Morris. (Closes: #658009)
137 * Fix the legal notice in copyright-format to not refer to a nonexistent
139 * Embed the Debian Policy version and build date in the debconf
140 specification and the copyright-format document. We'll make
141 non-normative changes without updating other version numbers, and it's
142 good to know which version one is looking at.
143 * Fix some whitespace issues in the debconf specification articleinfo.
144 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
145 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
146 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
147 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
148 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
149 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
151 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
152 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
153 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
154 * Expand package long description to include all documents.
155 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
157 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
158 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
159 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
161 * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0, and in the process
162 add the license information for the documents other than Policy itself
163 and the FHS. Note the implication of the GPL source code requirement
164 for distributing generated versions of the Policy documents.
166 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:02:12 -0800
168 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
171 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
172 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
173 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
174 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
175 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
176 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
177 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
178 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
179 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
180 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
181 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
182 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
183 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
184 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
186 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
187 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
188 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
189 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
190 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
192 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
193 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
194 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
195 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
196 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
197 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
199 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
200 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
201 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
202 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
204 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
205 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
206 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
207 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
208 Closes: #620870, #532120
209 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
210 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
211 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
212 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
213 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
215 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
216 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
217 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
218 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
219 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
221 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
222 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
223 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
224 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
225 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
227 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
228 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
229 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
230 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
231 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
232 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
233 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
234 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
235 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
236 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
237 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
238 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
239 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
240 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
241 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
242 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
244 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
246 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
247 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
248 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
249 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
250 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
251 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
252 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
253 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
254 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
255 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
258 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
260 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
261 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
262 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
263 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
264 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
265 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
266 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
268 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
269 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
271 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
272 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
273 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
274 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
275 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
277 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
279 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
280 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
281 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
283 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
284 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
285 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
286 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
288 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
289 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
290 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
292 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
293 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
294 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
295 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
296 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
297 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
299 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
300 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
301 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
302 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
304 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
305 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
306 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
307 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
308 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
310 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
311 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
312 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
313 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
314 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
316 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
317 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
318 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
319 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
321 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
322 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
323 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
324 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
327 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
329 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
331 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
332 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
333 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
334 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
335 Closes: #459868, #581011
336 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
337 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
338 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
339 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
341 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
342 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
343 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
344 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
346 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
347 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
348 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
349 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
351 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
352 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
353 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
354 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
356 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
357 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
358 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
359 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
360 Closes: #501930, #593909
361 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
362 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
363 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
364 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
366 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
367 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
368 machine. (Closes: #591857)
369 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
370 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
371 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
372 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
373 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
374 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
375 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
376 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
377 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
378 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
380 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
381 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
382 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
383 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
384 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
385 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
386 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
387 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
388 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
389 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
390 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
391 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
392 than the version in oldstable.
393 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
394 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
395 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
396 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
397 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
398 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
399 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
400 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
401 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
402 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
403 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
404 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
405 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
406 package. (Closes: #609160)
408 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
410 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
412 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
413 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
414 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
415 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
416 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
418 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
419 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
420 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
421 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
423 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
424 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
425 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
426 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
428 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
429 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
430 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
431 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
432 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
433 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
434 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
435 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
436 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
438 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
439 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
440 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
441 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
443 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
444 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
445 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
446 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
448 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
449 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
450 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
451 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
453 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
454 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
455 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
456 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
458 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
459 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
460 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
461 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
462 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
464 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
465 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
466 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
467 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
468 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
470 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
471 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
472 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
473 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
475 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
476 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
477 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
478 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
480 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
481 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
482 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
483 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
485 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
486 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
487 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
488 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
490 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
491 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
492 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
493 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
495 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
496 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
497 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
498 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
500 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
502 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
503 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
504 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
505 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
506 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
507 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
508 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
509 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
510 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
512 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
513 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
514 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
515 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
516 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
517 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
519 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
521 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
524 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
527 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
530 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
531 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
532 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
533 and distribution license' (three times).
534 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
535 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
536 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
537 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
538 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
540 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
542 Proposed by Santiago Vila
543 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
544 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
545 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
546 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
550 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
551 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
552 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
553 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
555 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
556 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
557 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
558 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
559 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
560 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
562 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
563 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
564 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
565 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
567 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
568 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
569 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
570 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
571 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
573 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
574 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
575 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
576 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
577 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
579 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
580 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
581 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
582 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
583 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
585 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
586 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
587 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
588 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
590 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
591 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
592 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
593 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
594 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
596 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
597 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
598 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
599 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
601 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
602 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
603 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
604 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
606 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
607 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
608 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
609 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
610 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
612 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
613 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
614 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
615 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
617 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
618 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
619 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
620 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
621 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
623 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
624 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
625 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
626 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
628 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
629 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
630 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
631 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
632 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
633 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
634 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
635 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
636 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
637 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
638 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
639 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
640 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
641 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
642 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
643 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
644 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
645 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
646 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
647 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
648 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
649 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
650 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
651 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
652 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
653 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
654 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
655 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
656 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
657 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
658 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
659 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
661 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
663 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
665 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
668 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
669 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
671 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
672 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
676 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
679 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
680 Wording: Steve Langasek.
681 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
682 Seconded: Julien Cristau
683 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
686 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
687 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
688 Seconded: Russ Allbery
689 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
692 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
693 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
694 Seconded: Russ Allbery
696 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
697 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
698 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
699 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
700 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
701 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
702 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
703 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
704 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
706 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
707 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
708 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
709 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
710 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
711 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
712 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
713 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
714 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
715 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
716 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
717 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
718 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
719 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
720 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
721 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
723 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
724 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
725 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
726 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
727 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
729 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
732 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
733 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
734 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
735 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
736 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
737 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
740 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
742 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
744 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
745 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
746 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
747 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
749 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
750 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
751 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
752 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
754 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
755 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
756 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
757 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
759 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
760 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
761 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
762 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
763 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
764 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
766 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
767 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
768 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
769 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
770 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
772 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
773 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
774 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
775 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
777 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
778 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
779 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
780 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
782 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
783 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
784 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
785 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
787 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
788 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
789 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
790 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
792 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
793 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
794 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
795 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
797 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
798 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
799 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
800 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
801 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
802 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
803 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
804 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
805 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
806 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
807 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
808 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
809 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
810 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
811 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
813 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
814 Source field descriptions.
815 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
816 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
817 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
818 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
819 description says otherwise.
821 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
823 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
826 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
827 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
828 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
829 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
830 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
831 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
833 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
834 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
835 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
836 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
838 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
839 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
840 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
841 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
843 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
844 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
845 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
846 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
848 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
849 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
850 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
851 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
855 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
856 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
857 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
858 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
859 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
861 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
862 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
863 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
864 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
866 * Add myself to Uploaders.
869 * Add myself to Uploaders.
870 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
872 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
873 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
874 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
876 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
878 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
880 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
881 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
882 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
883 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
885 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
886 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
887 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
888 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
890 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
891 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
892 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
893 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
895 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
896 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
897 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
898 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
900 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
901 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
902 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
903 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
905 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
906 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
907 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
908 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
910 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
911 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
912 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
913 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
915 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
916 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
917 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
918 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
920 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
921 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
922 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
923 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
925 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
926 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
927 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
928 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
930 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
931 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
932 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
933 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
934 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
936 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
937 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
938 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
939 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
940 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
941 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
942 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
943 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
944 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
945 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
946 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
947 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
948 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
949 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
950 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
951 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
952 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
953 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
954 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
955 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
956 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
957 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
958 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
959 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
960 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
961 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
962 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
963 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
964 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
965 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
967 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
968 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
969 links was completed long ago.
970 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
972 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
974 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
976 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
977 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
979 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
981 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
983 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
984 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
985 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
986 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
987 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
988 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
989 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
990 Millan (Closes: #209008).
991 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
992 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
994 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
996 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
998 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
999 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
1000 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
1001 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
1002 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
1003 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
1004 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
1006 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
1007 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
1008 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
1009 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
1011 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
1012 Küster (Closes: #403391).
1013 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
1014 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
1015 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
1016 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
1017 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
1018 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1019 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1020 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
1021 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1022 Closes: #186700, #458910
1023 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
1024 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1025 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1027 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
1028 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
1029 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
1030 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
1031 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
1032 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
1033 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
1034 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
1036 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
1037 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
1039 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
1040 * Add an md5sums control file.
1041 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
1042 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
1043 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
1044 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
1045 currently part of policy.
1046 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
1047 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
1048 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
1051 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
1053 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
1056 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1057 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
1058 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
1059 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
1060 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
1061 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
1062 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
1063 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
1064 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
1065 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
1066 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
1067 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
1068 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
1069 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
1070 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
1072 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
1074 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
1075 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
1076 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
1078 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
1079 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
1080 list?" (Closes: #412634).
1081 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
1082 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
1083 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
1084 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
1085 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
1086 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
1087 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
1088 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
1089 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
1090 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
1091 debconf specification.
1092 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
1093 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
1095 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
1097 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1099 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
1100 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
1101 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
1102 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
1103 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
1105 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
1107 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
1108 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
1109 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
1110 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
1111 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1113 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
1114 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
1115 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
1116 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
1117 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
1118 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
1119 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
1120 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
1121 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
1122 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
1123 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
1124 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
1125 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
1126 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
1127 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
1128 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1130 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1132 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
1133 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
1134 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1135 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
1136 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
1137 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
1138 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
1139 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1141 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1143 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1146 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1147 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1148 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1149 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1150 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1151 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1153 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1154 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1155 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1156 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1157 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1158 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1159 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1160 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1161 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1162 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1164 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1165 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1166 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1167 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1168 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1169 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1171 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1173 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1175 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1176 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1177 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1178 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1180 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1181 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1183 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1185 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1188 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1189 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1190 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1191 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1192 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1193 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1194 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1195 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1196 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1198 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1199 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1200 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1201 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1202 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1203 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1204 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1205 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1206 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1207 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1208 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1211 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1213 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1215 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1216 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1217 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1218 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1219 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1220 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1221 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1222 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1223 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1224 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1225 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1226 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1227 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1228 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1229 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1230 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1231 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1232 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1233 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1234 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1235 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1236 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1237 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1238 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1239 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1240 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1241 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1242 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1244 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1245 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1246 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1247 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1248 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1249 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1250 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1251 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1252 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1253 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1254 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1255 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1256 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1257 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1258 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1259 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1261 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1262 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1264 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1265 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1266 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1267 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1268 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1269 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1270 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1271 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1272 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1273 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1274 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1276 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1278 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1282 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1283 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1284 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1285 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1286 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1287 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1288 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1289 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1290 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1291 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1292 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1293 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1295 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1296 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1297 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1298 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1299 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1300 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1301 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1302 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1303 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1304 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1305 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1306 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1307 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1308 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1309 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1310 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1311 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1312 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1313 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1316 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1318 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1321 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1322 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1323 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1325 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1326 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1327 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1328 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1330 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1332 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1335 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1336 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1337 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1338 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1339 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1340 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1341 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1342 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1343 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1344 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1346 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1347 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1348 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1350 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1351 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1352 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1353 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1354 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1355 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1356 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1358 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1359 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1360 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1361 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1363 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1364 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1365 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1366 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1367 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1368 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1369 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1370 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1372 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1373 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1374 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1375 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1376 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1377 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1378 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1379 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1380 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1381 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1382 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1383 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1384 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1385 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1386 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1387 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1388 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1390 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1392 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1396 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1397 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1398 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1399 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1400 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1401 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1402 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1403 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1405 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1406 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1407 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1408 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1409 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1410 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1411 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1412 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1413 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1414 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1415 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1416 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1417 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1418 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1419 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1420 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1421 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1423 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1424 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1425 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1428 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1429 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1430 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1432 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1433 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1434 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1435 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1436 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1437 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1439 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1440 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1442 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1443 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1444 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1445 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1446 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1447 Closes: #185943, #237049
1449 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1451 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1457 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1458 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1459 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1460 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1461 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1462 running. closes: Bug#187250
1463 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1464 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1465 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1466 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1467 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1468 user closes: Bug#176506
1470 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1472 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1476 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1477 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1478 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1479 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1480 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1481 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1482 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1483 deb-building toolchain.
1484 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1485 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1486 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1487 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1488 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1489 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1490 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1491 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1492 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1493 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1494 sections about changelog files.
1496 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1497 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1498 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1499 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1500 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1501 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1503 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1504 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1505 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1506 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1507 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1508 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1509 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1510 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1511 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1512 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1513 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1514 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1515 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1516 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1517 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1518 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1519 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1520 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1521 for the restructuring
1523 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1525 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1530 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1531 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1532 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1533 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1534 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1535 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1537 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1538 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1539 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1540 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1541 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1542 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1543 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1545 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1546 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1547 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1548 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1550 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1552 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1555 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1556 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1557 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1558 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1559 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1560 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1562 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1563 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1564 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1565 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1567 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1568 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1569 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1570 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1571 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1572 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1573 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1574 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1575 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1576 offtopic stuff, too.
1577 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1578 script should start it, closes: #60979
1579 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1580 "should", closes: #170019
1581 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1582 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1583 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1584 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1585 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1586 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1587 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1588 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1591 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1593 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1597 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1598 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1599 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1600 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1601 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1602 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1603 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1604 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1606 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1607 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1608 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1609 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1610 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1611 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1612 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1613 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1614 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1616 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1617 file, closes: Bug#65764
1619 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1621 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1623 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1624 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1625 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1626 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1627 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1628 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1629 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1630 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1631 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1632 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1633 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1634 details. closes: Bug#133030
1635 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1636 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1637 parts of Bug#161455.
1639 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1641 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1644 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1645 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1646 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1647 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1648 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1649 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1650 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1651 not. closes: Bug#139820
1652 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1653 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1654 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1655 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1656 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1657 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1658 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1659 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1660 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1661 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1663 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1665 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1666 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1667 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1668 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1669 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1670 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1671 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1672 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1673 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1674 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1675 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1676 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1677 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1678 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1679 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1680 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1681 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1682 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1683 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1684 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1686 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1687 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1688 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1689 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1690 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1691 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1692 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1694 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1695 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1696 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1697 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1698 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1699 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1700 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1701 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1702 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1704 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1706 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1709 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1710 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1711 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1712 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1713 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1714 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1715 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1716 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1717 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1718 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1719 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1720 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1721 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1722 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1723 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1724 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1725 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1726 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1727 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1728 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1729 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1730 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1732 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1734 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1737 medium, high, emergency.
1738 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1739 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1740 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1741 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1742 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1745 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1746 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1747 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1749 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1750 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1751 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1752 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1753 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1754 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1755 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1758 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1760 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1763 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1764 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1765 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1767 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1768 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1769 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1770 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1771 debian/rules to do this
1772 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1773 patches are incorporated upstream
1774 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1775 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1776 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1777 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1778 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1779 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1781 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1782 system closes: Bug#91249
1783 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1784 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1785 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1786 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1787 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1788 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1789 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1790 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1791 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1792 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1793 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1794 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1795 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1797 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1799 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1802 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1803 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1804 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1806 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1807 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1808 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1810 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1813 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1815 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1818 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1819 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1820 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1821 package for the time being
1822 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1823 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1824 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1825 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1826 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1827 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1828 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1829 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1830 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1831 Build-Depends arch syntax
1832 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1834 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1835 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1837 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1838 from policy maintenance duties.
1839 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1840 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1842 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1844 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1848 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1850 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1853 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1854 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1855 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1856 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1857 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1858 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1859 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1860 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1861 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1862 minor version number for this
1863 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1864 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1865 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1866 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1867 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1868 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1869 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1870 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1871 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1873 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1875 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1878 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1879 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1880 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1881 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1883 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1885 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1886 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1887 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1888 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1889 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1890 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1891 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1892 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1893 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1894 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1895 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1896 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1897 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1898 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1899 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1900 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1903 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1905 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1908 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1910 * Document the Enhances relationship
1911 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1912 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1913 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1914 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1915 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1916 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1918 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1920 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1921 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1922 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1923 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1925 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1926 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1927 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1928 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1929 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1931 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1933 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1935 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1936 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1937 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1939 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1940 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1941 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1942 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1943 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1944 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1945 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1946 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1947 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1949 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1951 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1953 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1956 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1957 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1958 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1959 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1960 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1961 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1962 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1963 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1964 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1965 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1966 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1967 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1968 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1969 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1970 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1971 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1972 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1973 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1974 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1975 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1976 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1978 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1979 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1981 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1983 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1986 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1987 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1988 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1989 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1990 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1991 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1992 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1993 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1994 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1995 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1996 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1997 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1998 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1999 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
2000 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
2001 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
2002 alternative closes: Bug#53755
2003 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
2004 list closes: Bug#53756
2005 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
2006 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
2007 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
2008 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
2009 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
2010 policy closes: Bug#53760
2011 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
2012 policy closes: Bug#53761
2013 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
2014 that use X closes: Bug#53762
2015 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
2016 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
2017 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
2018 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
2019 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
2020 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
2021 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
2022 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
2023 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
2025 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
2026 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
2027 to install with older fileutils.
2028 * Installed FHS version 2.1
2029 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
2030 * Added FHS details to copyright file
2031 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
2033 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
2034 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
2036 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
2038 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2040 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
2041 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
2043 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
2045 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
2048 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
2050 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
2053 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2055 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
2056 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
2058 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
2060 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
2062 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
2065 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
2067 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
2069 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
2072 #45561, #42447, #48570)
2073 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
2074 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
2075 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
2076 directoried (closes: #41547)
2077 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
2078 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
2079 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
2080 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
2081 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
2082 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
2083 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
2084 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
2085 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
2086 package criteria (closes: #45318)
2087 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
2089 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
2090 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
2091 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
2092 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
2093 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
2094 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
2095 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
2097 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
2098 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
2099 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
2100 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
2102 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
2104 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
2106 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
2107 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
2109 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
2111 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
2114 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
2116 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
2118 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * A few typos and omissions corrected
2121 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
2123 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
2124 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
2125 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
2126 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
2127 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
2128 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
2129 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
2130 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
2131 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
2132 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
2133 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
2134 this closes: Bug#38612
2135 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
2136 before. closes: Bug#40864
2138 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2140 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2143 officially uploaded.
2144 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2146 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2147 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2148 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2150 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2151 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2152 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2153 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2154 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2155 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2157 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2158 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2159 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2161 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2163 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2164 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2165 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2166 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2167 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2169 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2171 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2174 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2175 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2176 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2177 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2178 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2179 there). closes: Bug#34233
2180 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2181 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2182 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2183 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2184 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2186 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2188 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2191 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2192 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2193 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2196 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2197 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2198 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2199 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2200 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2203 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2204 number. closes: BUG#25911
2206 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2207 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2208 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2209 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2210 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2211 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2213 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2214 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2215 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2218 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2219 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2220 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2222 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2223 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2224 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2225 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2227 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2228 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2229 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2231 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2233 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2234 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2235 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2236 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2237 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2238 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2239 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2240 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2243 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2245 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2246 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2249 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2251 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2255 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2257 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2259 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2260 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2261 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2262 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2263 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2264 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2265 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2266 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2268 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2269 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2271 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2273 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2275 * non-maintainer release
2276 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2277 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2279 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2280 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2281 * no content changes
2282 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2284 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2286 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2290 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2292 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2294 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2296 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2297 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2298 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2300 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2301 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2303 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2304 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2305 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2306 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2308 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2309 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2310 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2311 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2312 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2313 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2314 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2316 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2317 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2318 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2321 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2322 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2323 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2325 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2326 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2327 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2329 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2330 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2332 * New version numbering scheme:
2334 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2335 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2336 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2339 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2340 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2341 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2342 differ between the manuals.
2344 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2345 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2346 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2347 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2349 * Packaging changes:
2351 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2352 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2354 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2356 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2358 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2362 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2363 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2364 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2366 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2367 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2370 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2371 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2372 file extension as the referenced file
2374 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2375 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2377 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2378 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2379 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2380 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2383 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2384 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2385 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2387 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2388 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2389 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2390 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2393 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2394 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2397 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2398 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2399 reasonable default configuration
2401 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2402 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2403 by all news servers and clients
2405 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2406 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2407 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2408 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2409 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2411 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2412 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2415 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2417 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2418 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2420 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2423 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2424 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2426 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2427 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2429 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2431 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2433 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2435 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2436 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2437 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2438 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2440 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2442 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2443 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2444 * Don't use debstd anymore
2446 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2448 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2451 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2452 contrib/non-free policy
2453 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2454 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2455 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2456 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2457 - new section about `Daemons'
2458 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2459 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2460 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2461 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2462 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2463 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2464 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2465 * SGML source code included in package
2466 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2468 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2470 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2472 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2473 - completely reworked structure
2474 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2475 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2476 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2477 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2478 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2479 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2480 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2481 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2482 - mention "orphaned packages"
2483 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2484 distributions' policy
2485 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2486 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2487 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2488 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2489 - added section about arch spec strings
2490 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2491 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2492 - added section about "menus"
2493 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2494 the new documentation policy soon
2495 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2496 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2498 - added section about editors and pagers
2499 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2500 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2501 - added section about device files
2502 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2503 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2504 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2506 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2507 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2508 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2509 - Added new section about obsolete names
2510 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2511 * Fixed package's description
2513 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2515 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2517 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2519 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2521 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2523 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2524 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2525 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2526 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2528 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2530 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2532 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2533 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2534 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2536 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2537 and upload it "byhand" too.
2539 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2541 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2545 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2546 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2547 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2548 functionality must not have the same name.
2549 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2550 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2551 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2552 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2553 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2554 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2555 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2557 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2558 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2559 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2560 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2561 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2562 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2563 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2564 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2567 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2569 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2571 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2573 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2574 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2575 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2576 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2577 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2580 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2582 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2584 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2586 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2587 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2588 description of deb file format.
2589 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2590 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2592 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2594 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2595 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2597 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2599 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2601 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2602 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2603 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2604 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2605 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2606 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2607 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2608 packages in section on Procedure
2609 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2610 a package maintainer
2611 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2612 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2613 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2615 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2616 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2617 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2618 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2619 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2620 on various shlib files
2621 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2622 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2623 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2625 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2627 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2629 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2630 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2631 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2633 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2634 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2635 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2636 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2637 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2639 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2641 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2643 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2645 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2647 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2648 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2649 compatibility go in contrib.
2651 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2652 instructions in policy manual.
2653 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2656 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2658 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2660 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2661 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2662 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2663 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2665 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2666 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2669 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2671 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2673 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2674 * More detail about changelog format names.
2676 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2677 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2681 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2683 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2685 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2687 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2689 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2691 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2693 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2695 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2696 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2697 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2699 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2701 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2703 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2705 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2707 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2711 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100