1 debian-policy (3.9.5.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Policy: Document the Package-List field.
4 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
5 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
6 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
8 * Policy: DM-Upload-Allowed is now obsolete
9 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
10 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
11 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
12 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
14 * Policy: Checksums-{Sha1,Sha256} are now mandatory
15 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
16 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
17 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
19 * Policy: Requirements for udebs are not well documented yet
20 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
21 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
22 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
23 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
24 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
26 * Policy: install-info is run by a dpkg trigger.
27 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
28 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
29 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
31 * debconf_spec: Document the 'escape' capability.
32 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
33 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
34 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
36 * Clean outdated mentions of dpkg commands in appendix. Thanks, Guillem Jover
37 * Remove outdated mention of dselect documentation.
38 Closes: #700574. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
39 * Update dak reference from old katie name.
40 Closes: #700536. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
41 * Fix typo in 8.6.4. Thanks, Raúl Benencia. (Closes: #691352)
42 * Fix typo in 8.6.4.1. Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>.
44 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:32:46 -0700
46 debian-policy (3.9.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
48 * build-arch and build-indep are now mandatory targets in debian/rules,
49 implementing the Technical Committee ruling in #629385. Wording
50 review by Jonathan Nieder, Jakub Wilk, and Roger Leigh.
52 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding tasks.
53 Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #670429)
54 * Policy: Copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8
55 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
56 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
57 Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
58 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
60 * Policy: Prohibit deprecated < and > relations
61 Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
62 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
63 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
65 * Policy: Document the Built-Using field
66 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
67 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
68 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
70 * Policy: Document the Vcs-* fields
71 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
72 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
73 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
74 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
75 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
77 * Policy: Document restrictions on the use of /run for wheezy
78 Wording: Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
79 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
80 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
82 * Policy: Rewrite shared library dependency policy to document symbols
83 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
84 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
85 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
86 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
88 * Policy: Document generic and upstart-specific init system requirements
89 Wording: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
90 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
91 Seconded: Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
93 * Policy: Rely on triggers instead of calling update-mime
94 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
95 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
96 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
99 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:35:36 -0700
101 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
103 * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source
104 package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)
105 * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.
106 Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)
107 and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and
109 * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking
110 whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending
111 dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)
112 * Remove the ambiguous word "installed" when requiring that the location
113 of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)
114 * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not
115 contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)
116 * Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided
117 (currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist
118 or perform the equivalent actions. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some
119 of the wording. (Closes: #601839)
120 * Clearly state that "yes" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed
121 and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)
122 * Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to
123 reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam
124 Morris. (Closes: #658009)
125 * Fix the legal notice in copyright-format to not refer to a nonexistent
127 * Embed the Debian Policy version and build date in the debconf
128 specification and the copyright-format document. We'll make
129 non-normative changes without updating other version numbers, and it's
130 good to know which version one is looking at.
131 * Fix some whitespace issues in the debconf specification articleinfo.
132 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
133 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
134 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
135 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
136 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
137 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
139 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
140 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
141 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
142 * Expand package long description to include all documents.
143 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
145 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
146 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
147 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
149 * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0, and in the process
150 add the license information for the documents other than Policy itself
151 and the FHS. Note the implication of the GPL source code requirement
152 for distributing generated versions of the Policy documents.
154 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:02:12 -0800
156 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
159 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
160 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
161 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
162 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
163 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
164 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
165 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
166 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
167 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
168 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
169 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
170 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
171 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
172 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
174 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
175 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
176 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
177 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
178 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
180 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
181 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
182 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
183 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
184 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
185 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
187 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
188 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
189 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
190 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
192 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
193 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
194 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
195 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
196 Closes: #620870, #532120
197 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
198 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
199 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
200 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
201 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
203 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
204 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
205 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
206 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
207 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
209 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
210 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
211 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
212 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
213 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
215 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
216 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
217 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
218 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
219 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
220 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
221 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
222 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
223 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
224 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
225 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
226 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
227 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
228 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
229 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
230 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
232 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
234 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
235 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
236 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
237 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
238 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
239 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
240 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
241 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
242 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
243 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
246 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
248 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
249 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
250 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
251 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
252 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
253 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
254 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
256 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
257 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
259 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
260 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
261 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
262 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
263 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
265 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
267 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
268 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
269 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
271 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
272 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
273 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
274 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
276 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
277 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
278 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
280 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
281 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
282 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
283 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
284 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
285 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
287 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
288 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
289 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
290 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
292 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
293 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
294 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
295 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
296 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
298 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
299 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
300 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
301 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
302 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
304 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
305 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
306 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
307 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
309 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
310 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
311 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
312 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
315 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
317 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
319 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
320 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
321 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
322 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
323 Closes: #459868, #581011
324 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
325 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
326 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
327 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
329 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
330 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
331 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
332 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
334 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
335 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
336 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
337 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
339 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
340 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
341 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
342 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
344 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
345 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
346 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
347 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
348 Closes: #501930, #593909
349 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
350 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
351 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
352 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
354 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
355 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
356 machine. (Closes: #591857)
357 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
358 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
359 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
360 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
361 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
362 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
363 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
364 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
365 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
366 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
368 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
369 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
370 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
371 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
372 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
373 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
374 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
375 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
376 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
377 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
378 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
379 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
380 than the version in oldstable.
381 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
382 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
383 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
384 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
385 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
386 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
387 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
388 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
389 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
390 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
391 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
392 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
393 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
394 package. (Closes: #609160)
396 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
398 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
400 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
401 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
402 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
403 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
404 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
406 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
407 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
408 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
409 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
411 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
412 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
413 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
414 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
416 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
417 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
418 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
419 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
420 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
421 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
422 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
423 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
424 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
426 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
427 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
428 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
429 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
431 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
432 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
433 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
434 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
436 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
437 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
438 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
439 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
441 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
442 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
443 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
444 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
446 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
447 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
448 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
449 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
450 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
452 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
453 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
454 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
455 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
456 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
458 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
459 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
460 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
461 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
463 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
464 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
465 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
466 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
468 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
469 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
470 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
471 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
473 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
474 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
475 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
476 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
478 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
479 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
480 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
481 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
483 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
484 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
485 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
486 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
488 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
490 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
491 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
492 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
493 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
494 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
495 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
496 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
497 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
498 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
500 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
501 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
502 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
503 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
504 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
505 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
507 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
509 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
512 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
515 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
518 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
519 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
520 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
521 and distribution license' (three times).
522 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
523 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
524 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
525 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
526 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
528 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
530 Proposed by Santiago Vila
531 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
532 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
533 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
534 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
538 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
539 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
540 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
541 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
543 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
544 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
545 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
546 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
547 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
548 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
550 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
551 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
552 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
553 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
555 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
556 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
557 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
558 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
559 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
561 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
562 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
563 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
564 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
565 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
567 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
568 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
569 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
570 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
571 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
573 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
574 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
575 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
576 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
578 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
579 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
580 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
581 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
582 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
584 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
585 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
586 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
587 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
589 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
590 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
591 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
592 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
594 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
595 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
596 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
597 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
598 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
600 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
601 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
602 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
603 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
605 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
606 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
607 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
608 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
609 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
611 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
612 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
613 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
614 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
616 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
617 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
618 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
619 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
620 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
621 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
622 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
623 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
624 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
625 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
626 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
627 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
628 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
629 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
630 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
631 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
632 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
633 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
634 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
635 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
636 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
637 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
638 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
639 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
640 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
641 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
642 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
643 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
644 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
645 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
646 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
647 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
649 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
651 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
653 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
656 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
657 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
659 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
660 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
664 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
667 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
668 Wording: Steve Langasek.
669 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
670 Seconded: Julien Cristau
671 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
674 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
675 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
676 Seconded: Russ Allbery
677 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
680 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
681 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
682 Seconded: Russ Allbery
684 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
685 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
686 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
687 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
688 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
689 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
690 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
691 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
692 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
694 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
695 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
696 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
697 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
698 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
699 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
700 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
701 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
702 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
703 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
704 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
705 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
706 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
707 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
708 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
709 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
711 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
712 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
713 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
714 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
715 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
717 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
720 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
721 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
722 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
723 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
724 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
725 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
728 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
730 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
732 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
733 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
734 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
735 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
737 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
738 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
739 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
740 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
742 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
743 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
744 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
745 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
747 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
748 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
749 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
750 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
751 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
752 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
754 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
755 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
756 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
757 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
758 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
760 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
761 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
762 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
763 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
765 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
766 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
767 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
768 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
770 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
771 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
772 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
773 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
775 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
776 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
777 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
778 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
780 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
781 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
782 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
783 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
785 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
786 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
787 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
788 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
789 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
790 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
791 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
792 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
793 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
794 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
795 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
796 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
797 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
798 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
799 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
801 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
802 Source field descriptions.
803 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
804 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
805 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
806 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
807 description says otherwise.
809 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
811 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
814 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
815 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
816 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
817 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
818 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
819 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
821 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
822 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
823 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
824 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
826 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
827 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
828 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
829 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
831 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
832 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
833 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
834 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
836 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
837 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
838 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
839 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
843 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
844 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
845 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
846 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
847 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
849 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
850 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
851 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
852 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
854 * Add myself to Uploaders.
857 * Add myself to Uploaders.
858 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
860 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
861 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
862 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
864 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
866 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
868 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
869 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
870 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
871 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
873 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
874 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
875 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
876 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
878 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
879 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
880 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
881 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
883 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
884 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
885 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
886 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
888 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
889 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
890 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
891 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
893 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
894 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
895 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
896 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
898 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
899 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
900 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
901 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
903 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
904 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
905 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
906 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
908 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
909 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
910 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
911 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
913 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
914 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
915 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
916 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
918 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
919 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
920 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
921 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
922 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
924 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
925 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
926 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
927 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
928 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
929 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
930 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
931 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
932 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
933 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
934 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
935 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
936 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
937 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
938 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
939 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
940 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
941 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
942 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
943 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
944 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
945 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
946 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
947 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
948 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
949 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
950 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
951 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
952 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
953 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
955 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
956 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
957 links was completed long ago.
958 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
960 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
962 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
964 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
965 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
967 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
969 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
971 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
972 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
973 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
974 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
975 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
976 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
977 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
978 Millan (Closes: #209008).
979 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
980 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
982 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
984 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
986 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
987 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
988 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
989 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
990 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
991 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
992 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
994 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
995 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
996 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
997 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
999 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
1000 Küster (Closes: #403391).
1001 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
1002 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
1003 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
1004 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
1005 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
1006 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1007 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1008 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
1009 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1010 Closes: #186700, #458910
1011 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
1012 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1013 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1015 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
1016 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
1017 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
1018 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
1019 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
1020 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
1021 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
1022 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
1024 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
1025 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
1027 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
1028 * Add an md5sums control file.
1029 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
1030 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
1031 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
1032 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
1033 currently part of policy.
1034 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
1035 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
1036 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
1039 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
1041 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
1044 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1045 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
1046 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
1047 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
1048 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
1049 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
1050 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
1051 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
1052 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
1053 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
1054 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
1055 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
1056 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
1057 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
1058 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
1060 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
1062 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
1063 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
1064 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
1066 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
1067 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
1068 list?" (Closes: #412634).
1069 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
1070 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
1071 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
1072 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
1073 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
1074 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
1075 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
1076 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
1077 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
1078 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
1079 debconf specification.
1080 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
1081 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
1083 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
1085 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1087 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
1088 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
1089 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
1090 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
1091 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
1093 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
1095 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
1096 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
1097 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
1098 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
1099 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1101 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
1102 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
1103 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
1104 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
1105 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
1106 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
1107 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
1108 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
1109 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
1110 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
1111 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
1112 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
1113 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
1114 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
1115 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
1116 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1118 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1120 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
1121 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
1122 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1123 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
1124 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
1125 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
1126 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
1127 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1129 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1131 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1134 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1135 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1136 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1137 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1138 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1139 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1141 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1142 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1143 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1144 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1145 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1146 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1147 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1148 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1149 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1150 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1152 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1153 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1154 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1155 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1156 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1157 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1159 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1161 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1164 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1165 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1166 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1168 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1169 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1171 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1173 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1175 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1176 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1177 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1178 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1179 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1180 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1181 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1182 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1183 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1184 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1186 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1187 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1188 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1189 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1190 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1191 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1192 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1193 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1194 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1195 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1196 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1199 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1201 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1204 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1205 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1206 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1207 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1208 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1209 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1210 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1211 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1212 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1213 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1214 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1215 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1216 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1217 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1218 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1219 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1220 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
1221 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
1222 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
1223 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
1224 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
1225 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
1226 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
1227 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
1228 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
1229 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
1230 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
1232 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
1233 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
1234 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
1235 Hess (Closes: #362247).
1236 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
1237 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
1238 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
1239 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
1240 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
1241 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
1242 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
1243 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
1244 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
1245 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
1246 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
1247 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
1249 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
1250 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
1252 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
1253 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
1254 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
1255 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
1256 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
1257 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
1258 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
1259 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
1260 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
1261 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
1262 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
1264 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
1266 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
1270 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
1271 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
1272 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
1273 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
1274 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
1275 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
1276 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
1277 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
1278 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
1279 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
1280 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
1281 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
1283 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
1284 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
1285 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
1286 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
1287 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
1288 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
1289 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
1290 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
1291 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
1292 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
1293 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
1294 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
1295 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
1296 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
1297 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
1298 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
1299 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
1300 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
1301 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
1304 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
1306 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
1309 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
1310 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
1311 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
1313 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
1314 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
1315 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
1316 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
1318 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
1320 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1323 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
1324 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
1325 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
1326 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
1327 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
1328 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
1329 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
1330 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
1331 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
1332 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
1334 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
1335 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
1336 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
1338 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
1339 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
1340 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
1341 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
1342 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
1343 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
1344 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
1346 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
1347 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
1348 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
1349 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
1351 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
1352 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
1353 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
1354 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
1355 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
1356 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
1357 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
1358 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
1360 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
1361 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
1362 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
1363 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
1364 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
1365 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
1366 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
1367 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
1368 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
1369 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
1370 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
1371 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
1372 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
1373 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
1374 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
1375 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
1376 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
1378 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
1380 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
1384 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
1385 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
1386 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
1387 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
1388 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
1389 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
1390 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
1391 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
1393 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
1394 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
1395 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
1396 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
1397 this section. closes: Bug#248618
1398 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
1399 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
1400 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
1401 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
1402 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
1403 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
1404 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
1405 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
1406 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
1407 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
1408 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
1409 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
1411 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
1412 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
1413 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
1416 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
1417 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
1418 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
1420 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
1421 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
1422 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
1423 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
1424 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
1425 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
1427 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
1428 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
1430 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
1431 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
1432 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
1433 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
1434 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
1435 Closes: #185943, #237049
1437 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
1439 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
1445 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
1446 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
1447 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
1448 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
1449 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
1450 running. closes: Bug#187250
1451 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
1452 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
1453 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
1454 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
1455 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
1456 user closes: Bug#176506
1458 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
1460 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
1464 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
1465 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
1466 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
1467 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
1468 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
1469 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
1470 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
1471 deb-building toolchain.
1472 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
1473 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
1474 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
1475 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
1476 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
1477 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
1478 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
1479 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
1480 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
1481 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
1482 sections about changelog files.
1484 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
1485 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
1486 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
1487 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
1488 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
1489 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
1491 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
1492 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
1493 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
1494 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
1495 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
1496 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
1497 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
1498 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
1499 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
1500 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
1501 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
1502 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
1503 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
1504 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
1505 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
1506 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
1507 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
1508 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
1509 for the restructuring
1511 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
1513 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
1518 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
1519 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
1520 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
1521 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
1522 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
1523 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
1525 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
1526 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
1527 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
1528 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
1529 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
1530 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
1531 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
1533 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
1534 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
1535 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
1536 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
1538 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
1540 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1543 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
1544 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
1545 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
1546 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
1547 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
1548 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
1550 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
1551 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
1552 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
1553 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
1555 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
1556 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
1557 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
1558 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
1559 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
1560 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
1561 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
1562 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
1563 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
1564 offtopic stuff, too.
1565 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
1566 script should start it, closes: #60979
1567 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
1568 "should", closes: #170019
1569 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
1570 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
1571 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
1572 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
1573 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
1574 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
1575 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
1576 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
1579 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
1581 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
1585 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
1586 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
1587 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
1588 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
1589 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
1590 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
1591 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
1592 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
1594 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
1595 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
1596 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
1597 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
1598 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
1599 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
1600 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
1601 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
1602 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
1604 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
1605 file, closes: Bug#65764
1607 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
1609 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
1612 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
1613 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
1614 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
1615 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
1616 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
1617 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
1618 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
1619 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
1620 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
1621 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
1622 details. closes: Bug#133030
1623 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
1624 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
1625 parts of Bug#161455.
1627 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
1629 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
1632 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
1633 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
1634 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
1635 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
1636 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
1637 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
1638 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
1639 not. closes: Bug#139820
1640 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
1641 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
1642 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
1643 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
1644 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
1645 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
1646 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
1647 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
1648 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
1649 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
1651 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
1653 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
1654 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
1655 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
1656 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
1657 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
1658 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
1659 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
1660 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
1661 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
1662 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
1663 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
1664 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
1665 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
1666 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
1667 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
1668 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
1669 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
1670 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
1671 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
1672 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
1674 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
1675 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
1676 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
1677 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
1678 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
1679 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
1680 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
1682 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
1683 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
1684 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
1685 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
1686 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
1687 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
1688 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
1689 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
1690 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
1692 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
1694 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1696 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
1697 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
1698 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
1699 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
1700 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
1701 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
1702 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
1703 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
1704 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
1705 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
1706 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
1707 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
1708 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
1709 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
1710 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
1711 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
1712 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
1713 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
1714 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
1715 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
1716 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
1717 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
1718 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
1720 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
1722 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
1725 medium, high, emergency.
1726 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
1727 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
1728 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
1729 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
1730 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
1733 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
1734 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
1735 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
1737 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
1738 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
1739 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
1740 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
1741 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
1742 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
1743 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
1746 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
1748 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
1751 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
1752 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
1753 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
1755 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
1756 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
1757 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
1758 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
1759 debian/rules to do this
1760 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
1761 patches are incorporated upstream
1762 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
1763 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
1764 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
1765 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
1766 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
1767 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
1769 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
1770 system closes: Bug#91249
1771 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
1772 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
1773 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
1774 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
1775 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
1776 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
1777 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
1778 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
1779 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
1780 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
1781 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
1782 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
1783 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
1785 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
1787 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
1790 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
1791 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
1792 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
1794 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
1795 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
1796 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
1798 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
1801 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
1803 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
1806 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
1807 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
1808 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
1809 package for the time being
1810 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
1811 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
1812 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
1813 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
1814 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
1815 * Rename all .text files as .txt
1816 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
1817 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
1818 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
1819 Build-Depends arch syntax
1820 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
1822 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
1823 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
1825 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
1826 from policy maintenance duties.
1827 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
1828 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
1830 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
1832 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
1836 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
1838 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
1841 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
1842 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
1843 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
1844 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
1845 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
1846 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
1847 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
1848 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
1849 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
1850 minor version number for this
1851 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
1852 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
1853 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
1854 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
1855 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
1856 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
1857 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
1858 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
1859 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
1861 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
1863 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1865 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
1866 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
1867 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
1868 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
1869 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
1871 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
1873 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
1874 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
1875 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
1876 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
1877 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
1878 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
1879 xutils closes: Bug#82966
1880 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
1881 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
1882 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
1883 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
1884 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
1885 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
1886 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
1887 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
1888 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
1891 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
1893 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
1896 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
1898 * Document the Enhances relationship
1899 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
1900 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
1901 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
1902 policy. closes: Bug#53496
1903 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
1904 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
1906 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
1908 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
1909 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
1910 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
1911 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
1913 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
1914 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
1915 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
1916 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
1917 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
1919 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
1921 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
1924 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
1925 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
1927 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
1928 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
1929 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
1930 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
1931 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
1932 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
1933 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
1934 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
1935 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
1937 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
1939 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
1941 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1943 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
1944 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
1945 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
1946 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
1947 policy. closes: Bug#64437
1948 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
1949 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
1950 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
1951 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
1952 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
1953 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
1954 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
1955 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
1956 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
1957 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
1958 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
1959 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
1960 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
1961 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
1962 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
1963 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
1964 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
1966 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
1967 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
1969 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
1971 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
1974 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
1975 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
1976 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
1977 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
1978 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
1979 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
1980 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
1981 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
1982 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
1983 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
1984 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
1985 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
1986 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
1987 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
1988 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
1989 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
1990 alternative closes: Bug#53755
1991 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
1992 list closes: Bug#53756
1993 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
1994 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
1995 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
1996 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
1997 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
1998 policy closes: Bug#53760
1999 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
2000 policy closes: Bug#53761
2001 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
2002 that use X closes: Bug#53762
2003 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
2004 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
2005 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
2006 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
2007 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
2008 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
2009 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
2010 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
2011 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
2013 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
2014 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
2015 to install with older fileutils.
2016 * Installed FHS version 2.1
2017 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
2018 * Added FHS details to copyright file
2019 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
2021 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
2022 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
2024 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
2026 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
2029 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
2031 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
2033 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
2036 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
2038 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
2041 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
2044 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
2046 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
2048 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
2050 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
2053 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
2055 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
2057 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
2060 #45561, #42447, #48570)
2061 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
2062 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
2063 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
2064 directoried (closes: #41547)
2065 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
2066 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
2067 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
2068 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
2069 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
2070 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
2071 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
2072 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
2073 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
2074 package criteria (closes: #45318)
2075 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
2077 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
2078 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
2079 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
2080 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
2081 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
2082 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
2083 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
2085 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
2086 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
2087 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
2088 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
2090 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
2092 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
2094 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
2095 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
2097 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
2099 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2101 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
2102 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
2104 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
2106 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * A few typos and omissions corrected
2109 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
2111 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
2112 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
2113 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
2114 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
2115 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
2116 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
2117 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
2118 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
2119 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
2120 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
2121 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
2122 this closes: Bug#38612
2123 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
2124 before. closes: Bug#40864
2126 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2128 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2130 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2131 officially uploaded.
2132 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2134 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2135 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2136 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2138 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2139 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2140 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2141 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2142 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2143 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2145 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2146 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2147 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2149 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2151 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2152 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2153 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2154 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2155 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2157 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2159 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2161 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2162 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2163 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2164 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2165 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2166 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2167 there). closes: Bug#34233
2168 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2169 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2170 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2171 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2172 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2174 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2176 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2178 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2179 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2180 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2181 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2184 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2185 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2186 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2187 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2188 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2191 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2192 number. closes: BUG#25911
2194 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2195 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2196 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2197 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2198 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2199 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2201 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2202 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2203 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2206 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2207 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2208 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2210 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2211 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2212 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2213 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2215 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2216 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2217 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2219 * Make the package optional, not extra.
2221 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
2222 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
2223 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
2224 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
2225 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
2226 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
2227 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
2228 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
2231 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
2233 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
2234 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
2237 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
2239 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
2243 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
2245 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
2248 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
2249 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
2250 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
2251 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
2252 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
2253 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
2254 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
2256 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
2257 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
2259 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
2261 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2263 * non-maintainer release
2264 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
2265 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
2267 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
2268 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
2269 * no content changes
2270 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
2272 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
2274 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2278 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
2280 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2282 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2284 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
2285 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2286 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
2288 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
2289 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
2291 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
2292 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
2293 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
2294 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
2296 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
2297 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
2298 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
2299 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
2300 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
2301 and restart options and to comply with the console message
2302 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
2304 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
2305 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
2306 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
2309 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2310 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
2311 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
2313 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
2314 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
2315 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
2317 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2318 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
2320 * New version numbering scheme:
2322 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
2323 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
2324 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
2327 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
2328 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
2329 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
2330 differ between the manuals.
2332 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
2333 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
2334 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
2335 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
2337 * Packaging changes:
2339 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
2340 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
2342 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
2344 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
2346 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2348 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
2350 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
2351 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
2352 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
2354 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
2355 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
2358 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
2359 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
2360 file extension as the referenced file
2362 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
2363 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
2365 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
2366 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
2367 start, stop, restart, force-reload
2368 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
2371 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
2372 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
2373 be installed into /etc/cron.d
2375 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
2376 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
2377 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
2378 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
2381 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
2382 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
2385 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
2386 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
2387 reasonable default configuration
2389 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
2390 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
2391 by all news servers and clients
2393 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
2394 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
2395 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
2396 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
2397 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
2399 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
2400 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
2403 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
2405 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2406 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
2408 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
2411 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
2412 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
2414 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
2415 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
2417 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
2419 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
2421 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2424 - X library package is now called xlib6g
2425 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2426 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
2428 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
2430 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
2431 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
2432 * Don't use debstd anymore
2434 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
2436 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2438 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2439 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
2440 contrib/non-free policy
2441 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
2442 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
2443 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
2444 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
2445 - new section about `Daemons'
2446 - updated section about `Configuration files'
2447 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
2448 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
2449 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
2450 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
2451 * Paper about libc6 migration:
2452 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
2453 * SGML source code included in package
2454 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
2456 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
2458 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2460 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
2461 - completely reworked structure
2462 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
2463 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
2464 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
2465 - removed all those ugly footnotes
2466 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
2467 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
2468 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
2469 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
2470 - mention "orphaned packages"
2471 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
2472 distributions' policy
2473 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
2474 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
2475 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
2476 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
2477 - added section about arch spec strings
2478 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
2479 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
2480 - added section about "menus"
2481 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
2482 the new documentation policy soon
2483 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
2484 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
2486 - added section about editors and pagers
2487 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
2488 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
2489 - added section about device files
2490 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
2491 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
2492 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
2494 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
2495 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
2496 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
2497 - Added new section about obsolete names
2498 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
2499 * Fixed package's description
2501 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
2503 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2505 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
2507 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
2509 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2511 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
2512 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
2513 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
2514 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
2516 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
2518 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2520 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
2521 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
2522 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
2524 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
2525 and upload it "byhand" too.
2527 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
2529 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
2533 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
2534 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
2535 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
2536 functionality must not have the same name.
2537 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
2538 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
2539 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
2540 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
2541 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
2542 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
2543 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
2545 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
2546 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
2547 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
2548 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
2549 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
2550 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
2551 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
2552 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
2555 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
2557 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
2559 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
2561 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
2562 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
2563 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
2564 a package into. (Guy Maor)
2565 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
2568 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
2570 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
2572 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
2574 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
2575 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
2576 description of deb file format.
2577 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
2578 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
2580 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
2582 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
2583 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
2585 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
2587 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
2589 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
2590 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
2591 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
2592 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
2593 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
2594 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
2595 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
2596 packages in section on Procedure
2597 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
2598 a package maintainer
2599 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
2600 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
2601 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
2603 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
2604 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
2605 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
2606 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
2607 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
2608 on various shlib files
2609 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
2610 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
2611 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
2613 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
2615 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
2617 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
2618 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
2619 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
2621 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
2622 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
2623 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
2624 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
2625 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
2627 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
2629 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
2631 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
2633 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
2635 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
2636 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
2637 compatibility go in contrib.
2639 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
2640 instructions in policy manual.
2641 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
2644 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
2646 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
2648 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
2649 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
2650 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
2651 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
2653 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
2654 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
2657 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
2659 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
2661 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
2662 * More detail about changelog format names.
2664 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
2665 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
2669 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
2671 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
2673 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
2675 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
2677 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
2679 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
2681 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
2683 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
2684 * More verbosity about netiquette.
2685 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
2687 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
2689 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
2691 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
2693 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
2695 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
2699 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100