1 debian-policy (3.9.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Policy: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
4 * Makefile: use gzip -n when compressing generated files.
5 * Policy: Symbolic links must not traverse above the root directory.
6 Wording: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>
7 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
8 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
9 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
11 * Policy: [9.2.2] document 32-bit UIDs ranges.
12 Wording: Matthew Vernon <matthew@debian.org>
13 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
14 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
15 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
17 * Policy: [5.1] empty field values in control files are only permitted in
18 the debian/control file of a source package.
19 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
20 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
21 Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>
23 * Policy: [4.9] debian/rules: required targets must not attempt network
25 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
26 Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>
27 Seconded: Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org>
29 * Policy: [12.3] recommend to ship additional documentation for package 'pkg'
30 in a separate package 'pkg-doc' and install it into /usr/share/doc/pkg.
31 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
32 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
33 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
36 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 13 Oct 2015 22:03:00 +0200
38 debian-policy (3.9.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
40 * Fix FTBFS with emacs 24.4. Thanks to David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
41 for the help. Closes: #769219
43 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Mon, 17 Nov 2014 11:55:55 +0100
45 debian-policy (3.9.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
48 * upgrading-checklist.sgml: remove spurious 'details in' leftover from
49 the HTML transition. Closes: #740100. Thanks Jakub Wilk.
51 - Build-Depends emacs-nox|emacs instead of emacs23. Closes: #753999
52 Thanks Gabriele Giacone and Rob Browning.
53 * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
54 * Policy: [11.5.1] Web servers: Fix use of metasyntactic variables and
55 applications Closes: #737730. Thanks Olivier Berger.
56 * Policy: [5.6.21] Files: Fix typo "by" -> be. Closes: #753353.
57 Thanks Benedikt Wildenhain.
58 * Policy: Remove reference to DEHS (dead service)
59 Wording: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
60 Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
61 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
63 * Policy: Relax /usr/share FHS requirement for directories with mixed content.
64 Wording: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
65 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
66 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
67 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
68 Seconded: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>
70 * Perl Policy: @INC has /usr/lib/perl/5.18, not /usr/lib/perl/5.18.2
71 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
72 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
73 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
75 * Perl Policy: Explain %Config earlier
76 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
77 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
78 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
80 * Perl Policy: @INC changes for multiarch
81 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
82 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
83 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
85 * Perl Policy: Packages using Perl vendorarch directory need a perlapi-*
87 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
88 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
89 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
90 Seconded: Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>
92 * Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch headers directories
93 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
94 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
95 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
97 * Policy: Discourage statically linked binaries
98 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
99 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
100 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
102 * Policy: Clarify whose signature should go in debian/changelog (4.4)
103 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
104 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
105 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
107 * Policy: Change default web document root to /var/www/html
108 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
109 Seconded: Arno Töll <arno@debian.org>
110 Seconded: Matthias Urlichs <matthias@urlichs.de>
112 * virtual-package-names-list: Update java runtime list
113 Wording: Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>
114 Seconded: Tony Mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
115 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
117 * virtual-package-names-list: Add httpd-wsgi
118 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
119 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
120 Seconded: Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org>
123 * Policy: Drop FHS requirement that /usr/local/lib<qual> exist when /lib<qual>
124 or /usr/lib<qual> does.
125 Wording: Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>
126 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
127 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
128 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
131 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 17 Sep 2014 20:03:20 +0200
133 debian-policy (3.9.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
135 * Policy: Document the Package-List field.
136 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
137 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
138 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
140 * Policy: DM-Upload-Allowed is now obsolete
141 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
142 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
143 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
144 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
146 * Policy: Checksums-{Sha1,Sha256} are now mandatory
147 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
148 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
149 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
151 * Policy: Requirements for udebs are not well documented yet
152 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
153 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
154 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
155 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
156 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
158 * Policy: install-info is run by a dpkg trigger.
159 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
160 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
161 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
163 * Policy: Stop recommending to serve HTML documents from /usr/share/doc.
164 Wording: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>
165 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
166 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
168 * Policy: File names encoded in UTF-8. ASCII preferred and mandatory in PATH.
169 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
170 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
171 Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
173 * Policy: Document the Dgit field for Debian Source Control files.
174 Wording: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
175 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
176 Seconded: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
177 Seconded: Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox@debian.org>
179 * Policy: Remove the exception to the FHS for the /selinux directory.
180 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
181 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
182 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
184 * Policy: on upgrades, recommend removing obsolete unchanged conf. files.
185 Wording: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
186 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
187 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
189 * Policy: Control data fields must not start with a hyphen character.
190 Wording: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
191 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
192 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
194 * debconf_spec: Document the 'escape' capability.
195 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
196 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
197 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
199 * virtual-package-names-list: removed mp3-decoder and mp3-encoder.
200 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
201 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
202 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
204 * Clean outdated mentions of dpkg commands in appendix. Thanks, Guillem Jover
205 * Remove outdated mention of dselect documentation.
206 Closes: #700574. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
207 * Update dak reference from old katie name.
208 Closes: #700536. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
209 * Fix typo in 8.6.4. Thanks, Raúl Benencia. (Closes: #691352)
210 * Fix typo in 8.6.4.1. Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>.
211 * Added a warning in appendix G about diverting conffiles.
212 Closes: #703022. Thanks, Torsten Jerzembeck.
213 * List build-arch and build-indep with the other required targets in 4.9.
214 Closes: #704657. Thanks, Philipp Hahn.
215 * Replaced non-standard names of dpkg states by normalised ones.
217 * Clarify what is meant by "compressed" in section 10.5. (Closes: #676784)
218 * Packaging: use the VCS URLs proposed by Lintian.
219 * Packaging: normalised debian/control with the tool "config-model-edit".
220 * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
222 -- Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> Mon, 28 Oct 2013 09:40:48 +0900
224 debian-policy (3.9.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
226 * build-arch and build-indep are now mandatory targets in debian/rules,
227 implementing the Technical Committee ruling in #629385. Wording
228 review by Jonathan Nieder, Jakub Wilk, and Roger Leigh.
230 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding tasks.
231 Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #670429)
232 * Policy: Copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8
233 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
234 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
235 Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
236 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
238 * Policy: Prohibit deprecated < and > relations
239 Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
240 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
241 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
243 * Policy: Document the Built-Using field
244 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
245 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
246 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
248 * Policy: Document the Vcs-* fields
249 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
250 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
251 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
252 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
253 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
255 * Policy: Document restrictions on the use of /run for wheezy
256 Wording: Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
257 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
258 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
260 * Policy: Rewrite shared library dependency policy to document symbols
261 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
262 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
263 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
264 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
266 * Policy: Document generic and upstart-specific init system requirements
267 Wording: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
268 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
269 Seconded: Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
271 * Policy: Rely on triggers instead of calling update-mime
272 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
273 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
274 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
277 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:35:36 -0700
279 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
281 * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source
282 package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)
283 * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.
284 Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)
285 and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and
287 * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking
288 whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending
289 dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)
290 * Remove the ambiguous word "installed" when requiring that the location
291 of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)
292 * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not
293 contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)
294 * Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided
295 (currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist
296 or perform the equivalent actions. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some
297 of the wording. (Closes: #601839)
298 * Clearly state that "yes" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed
299 and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)
300 * Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to
301 reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam
302 Morris. (Closes: #658009)
303 * Fix the legal notice in copyright-format to not refer to a nonexistent
305 * Embed the Debian Policy version and build date in the debconf
306 specification and the copyright-format document. We'll make
307 non-normative changes without updating other version numbers, and it's
308 good to know which version one is looking at.
309 * Fix some whitespace issues in the debconf specification articleinfo.
310 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
311 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
312 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
313 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
314 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
315 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
317 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
318 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
319 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
320 * Expand package long description to include all documents.
321 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
323 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
324 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
325 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
327 * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0, and in the process
328 add the license information for the documents other than Policy itself
329 and the FHS. Note the implication of the GPL source code requirement
330 for distributing generated versions of the Policy documents.
332 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:02:12 -0800
334 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
337 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
338 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
339 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
340 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
341 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
342 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
343 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
344 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
345 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
346 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
347 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
348 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
349 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
350 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
352 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
353 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
354 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
355 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
356 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
358 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
359 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
360 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
361 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
362 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
363 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
365 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
366 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
367 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
368 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
370 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
371 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
372 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
373 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
374 Closes: #620870, #532120
375 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
376 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
377 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
378 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
379 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
381 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
382 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
383 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
384 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
385 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
387 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
388 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
389 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
390 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
391 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
393 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
394 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
395 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
396 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
397 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
398 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
399 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
400 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
401 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
402 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
403 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
404 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
405 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
406 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
407 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
408 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
410 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
412 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
413 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
414 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
415 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
416 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
417 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
418 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
419 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
420 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
421 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
424 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
426 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
427 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
428 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
429 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
430 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
431 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
432 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
434 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
435 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
437 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
438 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
439 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
440 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
441 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
443 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
445 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
446 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
447 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
449 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
450 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
451 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
452 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
454 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
455 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
456 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
458 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
459 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
460 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
461 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
462 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
463 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
465 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
466 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
467 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
468 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
470 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
471 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
472 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
473 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
474 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
476 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
477 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
478 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
479 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
480 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
482 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
483 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
484 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
485 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
487 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
488 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
489 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
490 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
493 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
495 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
497 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
498 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
499 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
500 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
501 Closes: #459868, #581011
502 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
503 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
504 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
505 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
507 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
508 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
509 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
510 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
512 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
513 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
514 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
515 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
517 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
518 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
519 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
520 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
522 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
523 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
524 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
525 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
526 Closes: #501930, #593909
527 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
528 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
529 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
530 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
532 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
533 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
534 machine. (Closes: #591857)
535 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
536 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
537 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
538 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
539 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
540 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
541 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
542 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
543 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
544 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
546 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
547 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
548 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
549 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
550 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
551 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
552 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
553 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
554 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
555 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
556 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
557 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
558 than the version in oldstable.
559 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
560 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
561 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
562 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
563 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
564 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
565 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
566 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
567 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
568 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
569 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
570 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
571 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
572 package. (Closes: #609160)
574 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
576 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
578 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
579 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
580 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
581 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
582 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
584 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
585 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
586 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
587 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
589 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
590 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
591 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
592 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
594 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
595 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
596 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
597 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
598 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
599 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
600 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
601 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
602 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
604 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
605 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
606 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
607 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
609 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
610 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
611 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
612 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
614 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
615 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
616 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
617 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
619 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
620 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
621 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
622 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
624 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
625 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
626 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
627 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
628 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
630 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
631 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
632 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
633 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
634 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
636 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
637 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
638 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
639 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
641 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
642 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
643 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
644 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
646 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
647 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
648 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
649 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
651 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
652 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
653 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
654 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
656 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
657 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
658 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
659 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
661 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
662 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
663 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
664 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
666 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
668 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
669 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
670 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
671 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
672 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
673 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
674 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
675 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
676 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
678 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
679 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
680 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
681 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
682 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
683 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
685 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
687 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
690 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
693 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
696 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
697 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
698 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
699 and distribution license' (three times).
700 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
701 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
702 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
703 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
704 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
706 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
708 Proposed by Santiago Vila
709 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
710 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
711 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
712 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
716 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
717 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
718 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
719 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
721 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
722 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
723 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
724 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
725 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
726 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
728 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
729 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
730 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
731 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
733 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
734 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
735 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
736 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
737 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
739 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
740 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
741 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
742 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
743 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
745 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
746 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
747 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
748 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
749 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
751 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
752 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
753 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
754 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
756 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
757 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
758 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
759 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
760 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
762 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
763 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
764 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
765 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
767 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
768 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
769 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
770 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
772 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
773 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
774 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
775 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
776 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
778 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
779 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
780 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
781 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
783 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
784 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
785 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
786 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
787 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
789 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
790 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
791 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
792 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
794 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
795 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
796 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
797 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
798 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
799 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
800 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
801 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
802 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
803 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
804 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
805 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
806 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
807 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
808 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
809 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
810 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
811 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
812 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
813 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
814 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
815 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
816 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
817 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
818 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
819 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
820 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
821 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
822 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
823 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
824 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
825 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
827 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
829 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
831 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
834 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
835 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
837 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
838 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
842 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
845 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
846 Wording: Steve Langasek.
847 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
848 Seconded: Julien Cristau
849 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
852 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
853 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
854 Seconded: Russ Allbery
855 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
858 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
859 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
860 Seconded: Russ Allbery
862 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
863 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
864 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
865 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
866 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
867 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
868 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
869 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
870 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
872 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
873 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
874 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
875 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
876 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
877 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
878 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
879 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
880 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
881 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
882 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
883 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
884 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
885 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
886 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
887 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
889 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
890 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
891 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
892 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
893 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
895 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
898 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
899 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
900 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
901 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
902 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
903 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
906 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
908 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
910 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
911 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
912 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
913 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
915 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
916 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
917 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
918 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
920 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
921 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
922 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
923 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
925 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
926 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
927 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
928 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
929 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
930 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
932 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
933 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
934 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
935 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
936 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
938 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
939 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
940 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
941 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
943 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
944 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
945 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
946 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
948 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
949 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
950 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
951 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
953 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
954 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
955 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
956 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
958 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
959 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
960 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
961 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
963 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
964 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
965 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
966 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
967 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
968 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
969 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
970 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
971 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
972 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
973 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
974 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
975 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
976 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
977 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
979 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
980 Source field descriptions.
981 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
982 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
983 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
984 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
985 description says otherwise.
987 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
989 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
992 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
993 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
994 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
995 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
996 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
997 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
999 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
1000 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1001 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1002 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
1004 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
1005 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1006 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1007 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
1009 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
1010 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1011 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1012 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
1014 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
1015 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
1016 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
1017 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
1021 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
1022 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
1023 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
1024 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
1025 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
1027 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
1028 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
1029 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1030 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1032 * Add myself to Uploaders.
1035 * Add myself to Uploaders.
1036 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
1038 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
1039 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
1040 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
1042 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
1044 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
1047 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
1048 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1049 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1051 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
1052 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1053 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
1054 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1056 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
1057 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1058 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1059 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1061 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
1062 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1063 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1064 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1066 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
1067 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1068 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1069 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1071 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
1072 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1073 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1074 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1076 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
1077 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1078 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
1079 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1081 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
1082 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1083 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1084 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
1086 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
1087 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
1088 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1089 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
1091 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
1092 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
1093 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1094 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
1096 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
1097 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1098 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1099 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
1100 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1102 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
1103 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
1104 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
1105 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
1106 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
1107 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
1108 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
1109 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
1110 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
1111 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
1112 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
1113 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
1114 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
1115 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
1116 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
1117 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
1118 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
1119 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
1120 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
1121 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
1122 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
1123 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
1124 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
1125 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
1126 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
1127 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
1128 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
1129 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
1130 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
1131 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
1133 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
1134 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
1135 links was completed long ago.
1136 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
1138 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
1140 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
1143 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
1145 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
1147 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1149 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
1150 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
1151 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
1152 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
1153 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
1154 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
1155 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
1156 Millan (Closes: #209008).
1157 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
1158 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
1160 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
1162 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
1164 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
1165 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
1166 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
1167 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
1168 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
1169 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
1170 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
1172 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
1173 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
1174 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
1175 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
1177 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
1178 Küster (Closes: #403391).
1179 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
1180 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
1181 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
1182 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
1183 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
1184 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1185 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1186 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
1187 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1188 Closes: #186700, #458910
1189 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
1190 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1191 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1193 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
1194 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
1195 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
1196 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
1197 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
1198 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
1199 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
1200 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
1202 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
1203 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
1205 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
1206 * Add an md5sums control file.
1207 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
1208 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
1209 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
1210 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
1211 currently part of policy.
1212 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
1213 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
1214 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
1217 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
1219 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1221 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
1222 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1223 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
1224 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
1225 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
1226 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
1227 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
1228 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
1229 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
1230 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
1231 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
1232 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
1233 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
1234 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
1235 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
1236 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
1238 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
1240 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
1241 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
1242 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
1244 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
1245 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
1246 list?" (Closes: #412634).
1247 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
1248 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
1249 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
1250 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
1251 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
1252 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
1253 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
1254 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
1255 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
1256 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
1257 debconf specification.
1258 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
1259 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
1261 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
1263 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1265 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
1266 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
1267 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
1268 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
1269 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
1271 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
1273 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
1274 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
1275 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
1276 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
1277 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1279 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
1280 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
1281 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
1282 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
1283 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
1284 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
1285 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
1286 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
1287 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
1288 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
1289 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
1290 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
1291 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
1292 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
1293 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
1294 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1296 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1298 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
1299 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
1300 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1301 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
1302 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
1303 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
1304 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
1305 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1307 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1309 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1312 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1313 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1314 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1315 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1316 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1317 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1319 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1320 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1321 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1322 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1323 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1324 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1325 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1326 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1327 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1328 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1330 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1331 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1332 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1333 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1334 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1335 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1337 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1339 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1342 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1343 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1344 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1346 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1347 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1349 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1351 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1354 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1355 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1356 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1357 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1358 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1359 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1360 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1361 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1362 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1364 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1365 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1366 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1367 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1368 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1369 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1370 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1371 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1372 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1373 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1374 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1377 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1379 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1381 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1382 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1383 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1384 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1385 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1386 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1387 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1388 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1389 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1390 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1391 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1392 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1393 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1394 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1395 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1396 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1397 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1398 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1399 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1400 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1401 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1402 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1403 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1404 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1405 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1406 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1407 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1408 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1410 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1411 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1412 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1413 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1414 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1415 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1416 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1417 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1418 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1419 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1420 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1421 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1422 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1423 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1424 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1425 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1427 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1428 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1430 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1431 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1432 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1433 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1434 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1435 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1436 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1437 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1438 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1439 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1440 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1442 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1444 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1448 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1449 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1450 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1451 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1452 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1453 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1454 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1455 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1456 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1457 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1458 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1459 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1461 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1462 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1463 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1464 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1465 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1466 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1467 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1468 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1469 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1470 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1471 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1472 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1473 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1474 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1475 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1476 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1477 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1478 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1479 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1482 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1484 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1486 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1487 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1488 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1489 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1491 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1492 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1493 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1494 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1496 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1498 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1502 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1503 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1504 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1505 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1506 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1507 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1508 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1509 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1510 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1512 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1513 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1514 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1516 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1517 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1518 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1519 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1520 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1521 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1522 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1524 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1525 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1526 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1527 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1529 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1530 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1531 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1532 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1533 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1534 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1535 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1536 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1538 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1539 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1540 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1541 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1542 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1543 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1544 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1545 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1546 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1547 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1548 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1549 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1550 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1551 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1552 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1553 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1554 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1556 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1558 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1562 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1563 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1564 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1565 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1566 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1567 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1568 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1569 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1571 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1572 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1573 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1574 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1575 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1576 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1577 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1578 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1579 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1580 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1581 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1582 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1583 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1584 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1585 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1586 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1587 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1589 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1590 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1591 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1594 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1595 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1596 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1598 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1599 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1600 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1601 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1602 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1603 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1605 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1606 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1608 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1609 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1610 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1611 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1612 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1613 Closes: #185943, #237049
1615 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1617 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1623 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1624 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1625 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1626 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1627 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1628 running. closes: Bug#187250
1629 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1630 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1631 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1632 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1633 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1634 user closes: Bug#176506
1636 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1638 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1642 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1643 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1644 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1645 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1646 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1647 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1648 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1649 deb-building toolchain.
1650 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1651 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1652 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1653 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1654 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1655 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1656 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1657 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1658 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1659 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1660 sections about changelog files.
1662 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1663 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1664 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1665 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1666 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1667 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1669 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1670 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1671 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1672 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1673 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1674 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1675 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1676 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1677 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1678 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1679 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1680 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1681 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1682 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1683 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1684 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1685 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1686 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1687 for the restructuring
1689 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1691 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1696 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1697 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1698 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1699 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1700 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1701 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1703 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1704 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1705 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1706 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1707 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1708 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1709 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1711 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1712 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1713 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1714 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1716 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1718 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1722 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1723 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1724 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1725 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1726 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1728 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1729 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1730 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1731 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1733 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1734 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1735 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1736 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1737 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1738 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1739 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1740 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1741 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1742 offtopic stuff, too.
1743 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1744 script should start it, closes: #60979
1745 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1746 "should", closes: #170019
1747 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1748 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1749 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1750 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1751 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1752 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1753 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1754 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1757 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1759 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1763 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1764 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1765 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1766 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1767 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1768 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1769 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1770 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1772 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1773 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1774 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1775 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1776 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1777 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1778 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1779 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1780 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1782 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1783 file, closes: Bug#65764
1785 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1787 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1790 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1791 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1792 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1793 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1794 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1795 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1796 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1797 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1798 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1799 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1800 details. closes: Bug#133030
1801 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1802 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1803 parts of Bug#161455.
1805 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1807 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1810 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1811 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1812 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1813 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1814 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1815 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1816 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1817 not. closes: Bug#139820
1818 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1819 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1820 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1821 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1822 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1823 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1824 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1825 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1826 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1827 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1829 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1831 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1832 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1833 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1834 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1835 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1836 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1837 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1838 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1839 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1840 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1841 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1842 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1843 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1844 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1845 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1846 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1847 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1848 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1849 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1850 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1852 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1853 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1854 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1855 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1856 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1857 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1858 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1860 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1861 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1862 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1863 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1864 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1865 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1866 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1867 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1868 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1870 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1872 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1875 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1876 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1877 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1878 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1879 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1880 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1881 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1882 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1883 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1884 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1885 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1886 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1887 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1888 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1889 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1890 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1891 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1892 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1893 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1894 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1895 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1896 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1898 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1900 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1903 medium, high, emergency.
1904 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1905 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1906 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1907 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1908 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1911 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1912 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1913 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1915 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1916 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1917 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1918 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1919 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1920 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1921 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1924 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1926 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1929 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1930 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1931 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1933 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1934 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1935 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1936 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1937 debian/rules to do this
1938 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1939 patches are incorporated upstream
1940 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1941 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1942 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1943 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1944 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1945 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1947 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1948 system closes: Bug#91249
1949 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1950 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1951 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1952 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1953 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1954 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1955 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1956 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1957 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1958 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1959 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1960 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1961 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1963 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1965 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1967 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1968 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1969 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1970 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1972 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1973 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1974 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1976 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1979 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1981 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1984 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1985 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1986 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1987 package for the time being
1988 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1989 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1990 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1991 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1992 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1993 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1994 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1995 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1996 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1997 Build-Depends arch syntax
1998 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
2000 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
2001 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
2003 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
2004 from policy maintenance duties.
2005 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
2006 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
2008 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
2010 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
2014 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
2016 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
2019 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
2020 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
2021 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
2022 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
2023 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
2024 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
2025 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
2026 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
2027 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
2028 minor version number for this
2029 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
2030 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
2031 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
2032 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
2033 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
2034 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
2035 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
2036 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
2037 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
2039 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
2041 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
2044 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
2045 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
2046 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
2047 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
2049 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
2051 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
2052 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
2053 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
2054 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
2055 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
2056 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
2057 xutils closes: Bug#82966
2058 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
2059 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
2060 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
2061 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
2062 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
2063 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
2064 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
2065 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
2066 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
2069 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
2071 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
2074 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
2076 * Document the Enhances relationship
2077 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
2078 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
2079 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
2080 policy. closes: Bug#53496
2081 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
2082 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
2084 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
2086 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
2087 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
2088 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
2089 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
2091 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
2092 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
2093 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
2094 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
2095 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
2097 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
2099 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2101 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
2102 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
2103 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
2105 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
2106 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
2107 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
2108 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
2109 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
2110 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
2111 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
2112 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
2113 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
2115 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
2117 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
2119 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2121 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
2122 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
2123 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
2124 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
2125 policy. closes: Bug#64437
2126 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
2127 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
2128 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
2129 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
2130 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
2131 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
2132 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
2133 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
2134 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
2135 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
2136 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
2137 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
2138 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
2139 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
2140 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
2141 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
2142 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
2144 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
2145 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
2147 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
2149 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
2152 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
2153 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
2154 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
2155 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
2156 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
2157 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
2158 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
2159 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
2160 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
2161 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
2162 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
2163 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
2164 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
2165 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
2166 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
2167 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
2168 alternative closes: Bug#53755
2169 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
2170 list closes: Bug#53756
2171 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
2172 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
2173 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
2174 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
2175 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
2176 policy closes: Bug#53760
2177 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
2178 policy closes: Bug#53761
2179 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
2180 that use X closes: Bug#53762
2181 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
2182 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
2183 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
2184 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
2185 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
2186 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
2187 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
2188 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
2189 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
2191 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
2192 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
2193 to install with older fileutils.
2194 * Installed FHS version 2.1
2195 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
2196 * Added FHS details to copyright file
2197 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
2199 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
2200 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
2202 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
2204 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
2207 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
2209 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
2211 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
2214 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
2216 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
2219 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2221 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
2222 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
2224 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
2226 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
2228 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
2231 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
2233 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
2235 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2237 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
2238 #45561, #42447, #48570)
2239 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
2240 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
2241 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
2242 directoried (closes: #41547)
2243 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
2244 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
2245 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
2246 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
2247 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
2248 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
2249 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
2250 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
2251 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
2252 package criteria (closes: #45318)
2253 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
2255 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
2256 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
2257 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
2258 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
2259 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
2260 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
2261 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
2263 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
2264 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
2265 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
2266 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
2268 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
2270 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
2272 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
2273 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
2275 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
2277 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
2280 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
2282 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
2284 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2286 * A few typos and omissions corrected
2287 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
2289 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
2290 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
2291 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
2292 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
2293 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
2294 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
2295 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
2296 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
2297 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
2298 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
2299 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
2300 this closes: Bug#38612
2301 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
2302 before. closes: Bug#40864
2304 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2306 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2309 officially uploaded.
2310 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2312 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2313 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2314 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2316 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2317 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2318 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2319 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2320 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2321 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2323 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2324 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2325 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2327 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2329 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2330 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2331 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2332 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2333 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2335 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2337 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2340 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2341 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2342 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2343 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2344 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2345 there). closes: Bug#34233
2346 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2347 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2348 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2349 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2350 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2352 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2354 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2356 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2357 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2358 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2359 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2362 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2363 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2364 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2365 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2366 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2369 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2370 number. closes: BUG#25911
2372 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2373 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2374 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2375 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2376 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2377 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2379 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2380 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2381 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2384 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2385 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2386 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2388 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2389 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2390 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2391 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2393 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2394 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2395 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2397 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2399 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2400 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2401 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2402 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2403 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2404 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2405 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2406 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2409 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2411 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2412 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2415 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2417 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2421 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2423 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2425 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2426 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2427 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2428 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2429 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2430 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2431 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2432 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2434 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2435 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2437 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2439 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2441 * non-maintainer release
2442 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2443 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2445 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2446 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2447 * no content changes
2448 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2450 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2452 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2456 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2458 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2460 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2462 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2463 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2464 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2466 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2467 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2469 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2470 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2471 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2472 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2474 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2475 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2476 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2477 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2478 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2479 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2480 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2482 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2483 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2484 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2487 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2488 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2489 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2491 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2492 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2493 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2495 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2496 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2498 * New version numbering scheme:
2500 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2501 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2502 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2505 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2506 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2507 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2508 differ between the manuals.
2510 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2511 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2512 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2513 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2515 * Packaging changes:
2517 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2518 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2520 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2522 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2524 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2526 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2528 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2529 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2530 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2532 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2533 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2536 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2537 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2538 file extension as the referenced file
2540 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2541 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2543 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2544 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2545 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2546 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2549 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2550 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2551 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2553 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2554 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2555 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2556 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2559 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2560 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2563 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2564 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2565 reasonable default configuration
2567 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2568 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2569 by all news servers and clients
2571 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2572 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2573 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2574 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2575 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2577 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2578 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2581 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2583 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2584 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2586 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2589 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2590 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2592 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2593 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2595 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2597 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2599 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2601 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2602 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2603 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2604 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2606 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2608 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2609 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2610 * Don't use debstd anymore
2612 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2614 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2617 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2618 contrib/non-free policy
2619 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2620 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2621 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2622 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2623 - new section about `Daemons'
2624 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2625 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2626 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2627 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2628 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2629 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2630 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2631 * SGML source code included in package
2632 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2634 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2636 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2638 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2639 - completely reworked structure
2640 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2641 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2642 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2643 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2644 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2645 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2646 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2647 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2648 - mention "orphaned packages"
2649 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2650 distributions' policy
2651 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2652 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2653 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2654 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2655 - added section about arch spec strings
2656 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2657 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2658 - added section about "menus"
2659 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2660 the new documentation policy soon
2661 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2662 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2664 - added section about editors and pagers
2665 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2666 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2667 - added section about device files
2668 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2669 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2670 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2672 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2673 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2674 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2675 - Added new section about obsolete names
2676 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2677 * Fixed package's description
2679 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2681 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2683 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2685 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2687 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2689 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2690 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2691 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2692 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2694 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2696 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2698 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2699 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2700 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2702 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2703 and upload it "byhand" too.
2705 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2707 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2710 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2711 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2712 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2713 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2714 functionality must not have the same name.
2715 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2716 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2717 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2718 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2719 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2720 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2721 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2723 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2724 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2725 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2726 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2727 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2728 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2729 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2730 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2733 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2735 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2737 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2739 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2740 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2741 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2742 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2743 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2746 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2748 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2750 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2752 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2753 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2754 description of deb file format.
2755 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2756 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2758 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2760 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2761 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2763 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2765 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2767 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2768 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2769 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2770 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2771 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2772 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2773 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2774 packages in section on Procedure
2775 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2776 a package maintainer
2777 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2778 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2779 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2781 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2782 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2783 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2784 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2785 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2786 on various shlib files
2787 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2788 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2789 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2791 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2793 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2795 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2796 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2797 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2799 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2800 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2801 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2802 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2803 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2805 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2807 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2809 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2811 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2813 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2814 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2815 compatibility go in contrib.
2817 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2818 instructions in policy manual.
2819 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2822 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2824 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2826 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2827 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2828 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2829 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2831 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2832 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2835 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2837 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2839 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2840 * More detail about changelog format names.
2842 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2843 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2847 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2849 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2851 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2853 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2855 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2857 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2859 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2861 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2862 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2863 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2865 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2867 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2869 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2871 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2873 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2877 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100
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